Paper 1 · Communication
UGC NET June 2023 (13.06.2023) Shift-II
Soaps, sit-coms and comics are part of
AHigh-brow culture
BMiddle-brow culture
CRestrictive culture
DPopular culture ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Popular culture — Soaps, sit-coms and comics belong to popular culture, so the answer is popular culture.
Explanation
★Soaps, sit-coms and comics belong to popular culture, so the answer is popular culture.
★Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs and objects that carry the most widely shared meanings of a society.
★It is produced for and consumed by the mass audience through mass media.
★High-brow culture refers to forms valued by cultural elites, such as opera and classical literature.
★Middle-brow culture sits between elite and popular tastes, aiming at educated general audiences.
★The term restrictive culture is not a standard category in cultural studies.
★The high-brow, middle-brow and popular distinction reflects how cultural forms are ranked by social status.
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