Клуб Дебатов: Высокая и Массовая Культура

Debates Club: High Culture vs Low Culture

Is there a fundamental gap between high and low culture? Who decides which works, practices, activities are high and which are low? Is today's low destined to become tomorrow's high? High culture commonly refers to the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. In contrast, low culture refers to such things as gossip magazines, reality television, popular music, yellow journalism. What is the relationship between high culture and popular culture? There are views that high culture is vanishing, because of widespread of popular culture and what is called “mass society.” This is where it is interesting to argue about high and low culture for these reasons, how people use culture to set up boundaries and how important is culture in shaping our behavior. We will talk about how high and low culture relates to our tastes, and life style. We will undertake actions to define and discuss conceptual barriers, aesthetic and intellectual distinctions, as well as social divisions between high and low cultures. All Welcome to participate on Friday, July 22, at 7 pm.