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The mass media of communications have often been charged with making our life more vulgar than need be. The assumption which underlies what I have to say is that the influence of unique artistic sensitivities on society has also been increased by the mass media of communications. This is good news and I am aware of the risk I am courting when I attach importance to a promising kind of social change: the academic respectability of pursuing optimistic lines of thought is strictly limited in sociological circles.
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Mass Culture, ed. B. Rosenberg and M. White (Glencoe, Ill., 1957) pp. 393–403.
Cf. A. Silberman, The Sociology of Music (London, 1963) p. 63.
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Gf. Gaetano Mosca, The Ruling Class (New York, 1938) p. 70.
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Don Martindale, Social Life and Cultural Change (New York, 1962) p. 54.
Cf. Paul Halmos, The Faith of the Counsellors (London, 1965).
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Halmos, P. (1971). Art and Social Change. In: The Proper Study. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81581-4_10
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