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Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes

Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes

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Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes

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  • Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.84)
  • Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.83)
  • Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.83)
  • Hegemony means tendential balance, not absolute class victory (similarity 0.83)
  • Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.83)
  • Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically (similarity 0.82)
  • No cultural form can be permanently classified by class origin. (similarity 0.81)
  • Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.81)
  • A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality. (similarity 0.81)
  • The mob sought access to history through genius-idolatry and fame. (similarity 0.81)
  • War of position is the only struggle form possible in stable class equilibrium. (similarity 0.81)
  • Mass media emerged with agrarian capitalism as culture itself became a commodity. (similarity 0.80)
  • Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.80)
  • Class position shapes how liberal novelists frame their characters’ survey of the city (similarity 0.80)

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  • A social formation is a complex unity structured in dominance, not an expressive totality.
  • Bohemian-working-class alliance powered British and Irish popular culture
  • Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones
  • Class position shapes how liberal novelists frame their characters' survey of the city
  • Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight
  • Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization.
  • Eighteenth-century popular culture operated outside the law yet inside networks of social force
  • Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone
  • In consumerist Australia everything including women becomes a commodity
  • Mass media emerged with agrarian capitalism as culture itself became a commodity.
  • Media are sites of struggle with relative autonomy from state and capital.
  • Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature.
  • Popular culture belongs to an alliance of oppressed classes
  • Schooling matters for hegemony because intellectuals depend on it economically
  • Smallholders form a class through mere numerical aggregation, not collective organization
  • Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions
  • Socialism became the banner of petit-bourgeois members appalled by capitalism
  • Structuralism inverts culturalism's claim by making experience an effect of categories
  • Subordinate class institutions can be absorbed to contain rather than end opposition.
  • The bourgeoisie expropriated popular culture to legitimize its rule
  • The commercial mass press was built atop the destruction of the working-class press
  • The mob sought access to history through genius-idolatry and fame.
  • The popular is defined relationally by opposition to elite culture, not by its contents
  • Totalitarian movements' rank-and-file dissolved class divisions via shared fear
  • War of position is the only struggle form possible in stable class equilibrium.