In Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste (1958), Herbert J. Gans said:
Aesthetic standards of low culture stress substance, form being totally subservient, … See more

Physical artifacts from low culture are normally cheaply and often crudely made, as well as often small, in contrast to the comparatively grand public art or luxury … See more

Each social class possesses its own versions of high and low culture, the definition and content of which are determined by the socioeconomic and educational particulars of the people who compose said social class. This falls in line with the … See more

Popular prints
Common throughout the 1400s to 1700s in Europe, popular prints highlight some of the key identifying features of low culture media. Shortly after innovations in printing technology such as moveable type, popular prints … See more

Audience
All cultural products (especially high culture) have a certain demographic to which they appeal most. In regard to low culture, it often appeals to very simple and basic human emotional needs, while also offering a perceived … See more

• Bread and circuses – Figure of speech referring to a superficial means of appeasement.
• Culture industry – Expression suggesting that popular culture is used to manipulate mass society into passivity. See more