Class and Culture

The government is also involved in promoting high standards of culture. Probably because some of them are managed by a dominant class that likewise believes in high cultures. Government participation is very large, but with the utmost efforts, most governments of developed countries will increase subsidies to museums, opera, ballet, orchestra, cinema (and similar forum), funds We will promote high culture by increasing. (Spring 1998, p. Government influence and promotion for elegant culture is actually quite profound and the UK can see the fully mature government's Ministerial Management Arts Committee.

Because the most basic group in society is social class, the main cultural composition is class culture. Class culture is an essential element of society like class ideology, but they are usually mediated by each other and external factors. In addition, class cultures are ranked inequality "in opposition, control, subordination, along the scale of" culture ", just as different groups and classes are not equal in the class society. We can see how the concept of hegemony is useful for understanding cultural realm and ideological and political realm. The struggle against mainstream culture can try to resist changing it, and in some cases even trying to overthrow its hegemonic power.

The original theoretical application of cultural control is Marxist analysis of "economic class" (foundation and superstructure), Antonio Gram chassis developed to understand "social class"; therefore cultural hegemony was proposed , The dominant class (bourgeois culture) The mainstream cultural norm imposed by hegemony should not be regarded as natural and inevitable, but should be regarded as an artificial social structure (institution, custom, belief). And similarly, investigations must be done to discover their philosophical roots as a tool for domination of the social class. This type of knowledge habit is indispensable for liberating proletariat intellectuals and politics, so workers, peasants, urban and rural people, especially those who targets the social and economic needs of the social class You can create a working - class culture of.