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The Creation of Adam, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling – an example of high culture. In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, [1] as well as the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy which a society considers representative of their culture.
It could also (generally with the definite article: the ton) mean people of fashion, or fashionable society generally. A variant of the French bon-ton , a now-archaic expression designating good style or breeding, polite, fashionable or high society, [ 2 ] or the fashionable world, ton 's first recorded use in English was according to the ...
High society is a category of people deemed to have social status or prestige. High Society may also refer to: Films. High Society, an Our Gang silent comedy; High ...
WASPs have dominated American society, culture, and politics for most of the history of the United States. Critics have disparaged them as " The Establishment ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Although the social influence of wealthy WASPs has declined since the 1960s, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] the group continues to play a central role in American finance, politics, and ...
The high-status track: Studies of elite schools and stratification (1990). Foulkes, Nick. High Society: The History of America's Upper Class, (Assouline, 2008) ISBN 2759402886; Fraser, Steve and Gary Gerstle, eds. Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, Harvard UP, 2005, ISBN 0-674-01747-1
A socialite is a person, typically a woman from a wealthy or aristocratic background, who is prominent in high society. [1] A socialite generally spends a significant amount of time attending various fashionable social gatherings, instead of having traditional employment. [2] [3] [4]
For the first portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L). Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other dialect; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...
Pages in category "High society (social class)" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...