PCUL 1F92 Lecture Notes - Working Class Culture, Upper Class, Commodification
18 Dec 2012
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Emerged in the middle of the 19th century. Particularly in the writing of matthew arnold (1822-1888) The whole scope of this essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present. He defines cultures as the best that has been thought and said in the world . Arnold: the strong feudal habits of subordination and deference have been dissolved the anarchical tendency of our worship of freedom . William hogarth beer street and gin lane . In support of the gin act and suggesting beer as a better alternative. Arnold refers to working class culture as raw and uncultivated . Calls them those vast, miserable, unmanageable masses of sunken people . Philistines middle class (concerns with emerging middle class, needed to know their plac but needed to follow the elites model for society to function, education was key) Populace working class (still the biggest one) Emergence tied to social and cultural changes of 19th century.
