High and Low Culture
Culture is something that will unite people in the same category and separate people into different categories based on their clothing, languages, lifestyle, preferences in hobbies and other different aspects. High culture and low culture is one of the examples. High culture usually associates with fine arts such as opera, classical music, ballet, classical painting and so on. Meanwhile low culture which is also known as popular culture (pop-culture) is usually appeal to the taste of the masses. According to Herbert Gans, an American sociologist, people select and choose the preferences which is meaningful and make sense to them based on their given resources in income and education. He also stated that 'high and low culture' is just functioned as domination and self-serving for elites to affirm their own standards and to express for other standards. For example, plays are usually associate with the high culture and the elites but historian 'Lawrence Levine shows th...