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What is Culture? Is it Possible or Desirable to have Different Approaches to its Study?
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Sarah Jane Lacey What is Culture? Is it Possible or Desirable to have Different Approaches to its Study? In his book 'Culture and Anarchy', Matthew Arnold said that to have culture 'is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world known everywhere'. (Arnold, 1882, p 28). In this statement he captures the conceptual essence of high culture, or perhaps more to the point, what has become 'high culture'. Since this time, the term "culture" has come to have a broader meaning, more inclusive of everything within a given culture rather than simply the most elite cultural manifestations. This has caused the term "high culture" to begin to serve for referring to those aspects of culture which are most highly valued and esteemed by a given society's political, social, economic, and intellectual elite. For example, Opera would be associated with high culture as it is enjoyed and spectated...
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