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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste.
Abstract
Herbert Gans offers a critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent, he still holds that the division exists.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Berger, B. M., & Gans, H. J.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1977-11
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 661
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2339755202
- Cited by
- 485
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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