Topic > High Culture - 527

In a capitalist society, money is power and cultural classes are based on financial gain. High culture, or culture with a capital “C,” “forces what we usually think of as high-level creative production” (O'Brien, Szeman 4). When asked in the tutorial what the stereotype of "high culture" versus "low culture" is, it was established that the mind automatically goes to activities such as: going to the opera or a theater production, owning season tickets, and habitually frequenting country clubs and social aspects included, watching horse races, drinking wine, and watching National Geographic. On the other hand, the vision of low culture is that of naive, 'redneck', closed-minded, working-class (blue-collar) citizens who find entertainment in things like watching "Family Guy", frequenting pubs and bars, drinking, watching soap operas. works and falling under the spell of reality TV. Over the centuries there has been a division between the working class and the upper classes. Divisions caused by the privileged causing a blockade among the lower classes to maintain the elite groups ...