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My argument is... that we are moving towards the creation of a mass culture; that the remnants of what was at least in parts an urban culture 'of the people' are being destroyed; and that the new mass culture is in some important ways less healthy than the often crude culture it is replacing.

Richard Hoggart

Almost all of us at some time settle for trash, even though we may know better.

Richard Hoggart

Compared even with the pub around the corner, this is all a peculiarly thin and pallid form of dissipation, a sort of spiritual dry-rot amid the odour of boiled milk.

Richard Hoggart

Richard Hoggart

Richard Hoggart

Born: September 24, 1918

Died: April 10, 2014 (aged 95)

Bio: Herbert Richard Hoggart was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.

Known for:

The Uses of Literacy (1957)
La Culture du pauvre (1970)
Everyday language & everyday life (2003)
Mass media in a mass society (2004)
The Way We Live Now (1995)

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