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| - | '''''Highbrow''''' is a colloquial [[synonym]] for [[intellectual]] or [[high culture]], which draws its [[metonymy]] from the [[pseudoscience]] of [[phrenology]]. "Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the [[european classical music|classical music]] tradition and much of post-[[bebop]] [[jazz]]; to literature, i.e. [[literary fiction]]; to films in the [[art film|arthouse]] line, and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. It can also be used as a noun. | + | '''Bildungsbürgertum''', a [[social class]] that initially emerged in mid 18th century [[Germany]] as an educated class of the [[bourgeoisie]] with an educational ideal based on idealistic values and [[classical antiquity]]. |
| - | The first recorded usage of the word ''highbrow'' was in 1875. | + | == See also == |
| - | + | *[[Upper middle class]] | |
| - | The opposite of ''highbrow'' is ''[[low culture|lowbrow]]''. The term ''middle-brow'' has been used to describe culture that was neither high nor low, as used derisively by [[Virginia Woolf]] in an unsent letter to the "New Statesman," written in the 1930's and published as a chapter in the book "The Death of a Moth and Other Essays" (1942). According to the OED, the term ‘middlebrow’ first made an appearance in 1925, in [[Punch]]: ‘it consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff that they ought to like.’ | + | *[[Great Burgher]] |
| - | ==See also== | + | *[[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)]] |
| - | *[[Classics]] | + | *[[Hanseaten (class)]] |
| - | *[[Cultural capital]] | + | *[[High culture]] |
| - | *[[Bildung]] | + | *[[Social environment]] |
| - | *[[Classics]] | + | *[[Social status]] |
| - | *[[Cultural capital]] | + | *[[Symbolic capital]] |
| - | *[[General knowledge]] | + | *[[Mentifact]] |
| - | *[[Status–income disequilibrium]] | + | *[[Habitus (sociology)]] |
| - | *[[Achieved status]] | + | |
| - | *[[Bildungsbürgertum]] | + | |
| - | *[[Egghead]] | + | |
| - | *[[Bluestocking]] | + | |
| - | *[[Lowbrow]] | + | |
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Bildungsbürgertum, a social class that initially emerged in mid 18th century Germany as an educated class of the bourgeoisie with an educational ideal based on idealistic values and classical antiquity.
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See also
- Upper middle class
- Great Burgher
- Patrician (post-Roman Europe)
- Hanseaten (class)
- High culture
- Social environment
- Social status
- Symbolic capital
- Mentifact
- Habitus (sociology)
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