The Uses of Literacy
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When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions.
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The Uses of Literacy, Richard Hoggart
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- The Uses of Literacy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Hoggart
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141191589
- ISBN13
- 9780141191584
- Category
- Social sciences, Textbooks, University and college textbooks
- Description
- When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions.