Los usos del alfabetismo

When a society becomes more prosperous, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions of people wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media force us to enter a world of the superficial and the material, or can they be beneficial? In 1957, when Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his book The Uses of Literacy, Britain was undergoing great social change. However, his work has not lost relevance today. Hoggart offers a fascinating insight into the closely knit values ??that make up and disappearing working-class communities in northern England, and lays out his views on the arrival of a new and homogeneous American-influenced mass culture. Mixing personal experiences with social history and cultural criticism, this groundbreaking work examines the changes in the lives and values ??of the English working class in response to the media. Hoggart outlined a new methodology in cultural studies based on interdisciplinarity and a concern with how the texts of mass publications are woven into the patterns of lived experience.