‘Anything but heavy metal’
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Introducing other variables in a study
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What is the relationship between cultural taste and social inequality?
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Cultural taste is used as a vehicle for maintaining and reproducing symbolic
distance between groups
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Musical tolerance
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Increases with education
Make people more exclusive in their choices, but no. people actually
become more tolerant
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Involves class-based exclusion (gospel, country, rap, and heavy metal)
Tolerant up to a certain level, the above are least appreciated by upper
class. Relationship between what one likes and ones class
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Is connected with one’s racial and or political views
The Critique of Mass Culture
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Herbert Gans’ explanation of the critique on mass culture argued that mass
culture involves:
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1. The negative character of pop culture creation
idea that it’s created for profit, standardized, homogenous. Standard on
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- Summer '06
- MindyRomero
- Sociology, heavy metal
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