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How Is Mass/Pop Culture Related To Social Theory' In this essay I will be discussing some issues that I have seen in how institutions and individuals are being subjected to various forms of culture. The specific forms I will be discussing are “High Culture” and what I like to refer to as “Mass Culture”. Mass culture is the same as pop culture as it is called today, but in my early days in “intro” classes at a community college I have learned it to be mass culture. I will be looking into how these forms of culture are distinguished by relating it to material from social theory. More specifically I will be including some issues brought up about capitalism and production as it is related to what Karl Marx wrote about, and how these issues are present in the two forms of culture I mentioned. For about a century, Western Culture has really been divided into two cultures, the traditional type of “high culture” and a “mass or pop culture”, manufactured wholesale for the market. High culture is the arts that require some form of intellect to comprehend, so therefore can only reach a tiny segment of the population, whilst leveling accusations of elitism. High culture includes ballet; culture, mass, high, mass/pop, forms, form, production, people, capitalism, popular, pop, members, masses, cultural, consumption, class, two, seen, issues, intellectuals, imposed, about, without, values, upon, type, tradition, therefore, taste, system, subjected, specifically, specific, society, shown