Richard Hoggart (born September 24, 1918) is a British sociologist, widely known for his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy. This book was differently interpreted as lamenting the loss of an authentic popular culture and as denouncing the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ...

He was founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964. He was also Assistant Director-General of UNESCO (1971-1975) and Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London (1976-1984). The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was a research centre at the University of Birmingham. ... The University of Birmingham is an English university in the city of Birmingham. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, home to the universitys central administrative offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ...

He was born in Leeds and educated at Cockburn High School and the University of Leeds. He served with the Royal Artillery during World War II, and was demobilised as a Staff Captain. He was then appointed Staff Tutor at the University of Hull, 1946-1959, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, 1959-1962, and Professor of English at Birmingham University, 1962-1973. During his Professorship, he was also Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1964-1973. Hoggart was a member of numerous organisations, including the Albermarle Committee on Youth Services, 1958-1960; the Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, 1960-1962; the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976-1981; and the Statesman and Nation Publishing Company Ltd, 1977-1981. He was also Chairman of the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education, 1977-1983, and the Broadcasting Research Unit, 1981-1991, as well as a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1962-1988. He was an expert witness at the Lady Chatterley trial, in a forthcoming dramatisation of which for digital television channel BBC Four, The Chatterley Affair, he is played by actor David Tennant. Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire in the north of England. ... Parkinson Building, University of Leeds The University of Leeds, England, is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... The Royal Regiment of Artillery, generally known as the Royal Artillery (RA), is, despite its name, a corps of the British Army It is made up of a number of regiments. ... Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 18 million Civilian dead: 33 million Full list Military dead: 7 million Civilian dead: 4 million Full list World War II, also known as the Second World... The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university in the East Riding of Yorkshire which was founded in 1927. ... Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the US or Canada) who do not hold a professorship. ... University of Leicester seen from Victoria Park - Left to right: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough tower, the Charles Wilson building. ... The University of Birmingham is the oldest of three universities in the English city of Birmingham. ... The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a large theatre dedicated to British playwright William Shakespeare in his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon. ... Lady Chatterleys Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. ... Digital television (DTV) uses digital modulation and compression to broadcast video, audio and data signals to television sets. ... BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began broadcasting on March 2, 2002 - its first evenings programming being simulcast on BBC Two. ... David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. ...

He has two sons, political journalist Simon Hoggart and television critic Paul Hoggart, as well as a daughter Nicola. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Simon Hoggart (born 26 May 1946) in Ashton-under-Lyne is a British journalist and broadcaster. ... Paul Hoggart is a television critic and columist. ...

Bibliography

• Mass Media in a Mass Society: Myth and Reality (Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi, 2004) ISBN 0826472850
• Everyday Language and Everyday Life (Transaction Publishers, 2003) ISBN 0765801760
• Between Two Worlds: Politics, Anti-Politics, and the Unpolitical (Transaction Publishers, 2002) ISBN 0765800977
• Between Two Worlds: Essays, 1978-1999 (Aurum Press, 2001) ISBN 1854107828
• First and Last Things: The Uses of Old Age (Aurum Press, 1999) ISBN 1854106600
• The Tyranny of Relativism: Culture and Politics in Contemporary English Society (Transaction Publishers, 1997) ISBN 1560009535
• The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture (Chatto and Windus, 1995) ISBN 0701165014
• A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual (Transaction Publishers, 1994) ISBN 1560001356
• Townscape with Figures: Farnham - Portrait of an English Town (Chatto and Windus, 1994) ISBN 0701161388
• An Imagined Life: Life and Times 1959-91 (Chatto and Windus, 1992) ISBN 0701140151)
• A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times, 1940-59 (Chatto and Windus, 1990) ISBN 0701136073 first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds
• Liberty and Legislation (Frank Cass Publishers, 1989) ISBN 0714633089
• A Local Habitation, 1918-40 (Chatto and Windus, 1988) ISBN 0701133058
• An Idea of Europe (Chatto and Windus, 1987) ISBN 0701132442)
• The Worst of Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression in Britain by Nigel Gray, Richard Hoggart (Barnes & Noble Imports, 1986) ISBN 0389205745
• British Council and the Arts by Richard Hoggart et al (British Council, 1986) ISBN 0863550487
• The Future of Broadcasting by Richard Hoggart, Janet Morgan (Holmes & Meier, 1982) ISBN 0841950903
• An English Temper (Chatto and Windus, 1982) ISBN 0701125810
• An Idea and Its Servants: UNESCO from Within (Chatto and Windus, 1978) ISBN 0701123710
• After Expansion, a Time for Diversity: The Universities Into the 1990's (ACACE, 1978) ISBN 0906436001
• Only Connect: On Culture and Communication (Reith Lectures) (Chatto and Windus, 1972) ISBN 0701118652
• Speaking to Each Other: About Society v. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701114630
• Speaking to Each Other: About Literature v. 2 (Chatto and Windus, 1970) ISBN 0701115149
• Contemporary Cultural Studies: An Approach to the Study of Literature and Society (Univ. Birmingham, Centre for Contemp. Cult. Studies, 1969) ISBN 0901753033 paper is based on a lecture given to the annual conference of the American Association for Higher Education at Chicago on 20 March 1978
• Higher Education and Cultural Change: A Teacher's View (Earl Grey Memorial Lecture) (Univ.Newcastle, 1966) ISBN 0900565624
• Teaching Literature (Nat. Inst. of Adult Education, 1963) ISBN 0900559195
• The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (Chatto and Windus, 1957) ISBN 0701107634
• Auden (Chatto, 1951) ISBN 0701107626 biography of W.H. Auden

Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Wystan Hugh Auden (February 21, 1907–September 29, 1973) was an English poet. ...

External links

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