Game Between Elite Culture And Popular Culture Under The Field Angle

Field theory is the basic theory in Pierre Bourdieu’s doctrine. It created by thegreat famous French thinker Pierre Bourdieu. It has been universally recognized bythe academia for its important methodology value.In the period of social transformation of contemporary China, knowledgeeconomy era achieves cultural fashion. As all kinds of new culture emerge inendlessly, culture as a symbol of the spirit and temperament carrier sought after bypeople. Mass culture and elite culture occupy an important position in the field ofChinese contemporary aesthetic culture. Game between the two kinds of cultural isbeing paid more and more attention, especially in new media era. With the increase ofthe degree of application and appreciation of the field theory, field theory have begunto try to intervene literary criticism and culture and art critics, and it can achieve thereasonable combination of theory and content, promoting theoretical innovation. Thisexplains that field theory can be referenced into the research in the field of culture.This article will take the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a startingpoint to analyze the game between contemporary mass culture and elite culture and toreveal the secrets of the game.This paper is divided into four parts. Introduction reveals the significance of thepaper topic-culture is increasingly important in the knowledge economy era and thegame is an important perspective in understanding culture. The game betweenChinese contemporary mass culture and elite culture becomes more and more obvious.It has important research value. The paper will briefly describes field theory, anddefine mass culture and elite culture’s status in foreign and domestic research to find avacancy in cultural studies and explain the feasibility of this paper.The first chapter will be carding three core concepts of field theory-habits,capital and field. The three concepts have close relationship and each plays anindispensable role in the relationship mode; It will comb mass culture and elite cultureand analyze the different characteristics of the two cultural forms. The second is the core part of the article. It will be through the main line, the wayof thinking and culture disenchanted thinking to find the focal point of the gamebetween mass culture and elite culture-the capital, the mode of the game-practiceand reflection and the ultimate goal of the game-the elimination of cultural illusionand segmentation. On the focal point in the game, cultural capital originally developsfrom economic capital and becomes an important form of capital. Cultural capitaloccupants in the field use capital to form symbolic power, occupying an importantposition in the field. Cultural forms in Culture Field also do reproduction of culturalbased on existing cultural capital to consolidate their position in field position. In theway of thinking, mass culture and elite culture in the course of the game all follow theprinciples of practice, and rethink after practice to form the rational developmentwithin field. I found that the imbalance of cultural development will lead to culturalillusion and cultural segmentation. Against formalism culture illusion, scarcitycultural symbols, culture social segregation, game analysis between mass culture andelite culture highlights three cultural illusions, especially the analysis of the eliteculture which enables people to have critical awareness and reflection spirit.Examining the phenomenon of Guo Degang is in the third chapter. It verifies thefeasibility of field theory in the analysis of the game between mass culture and eliteculture. First, analyze the reasons of for the popular Guo Degang’s comic, and revealGuo Degang’s phenomenon grasp the main line of contemporary Chinese AestheticCulture. Then analyze the way of thinking in the cultural of Guo Degang to competecapital, and the existence of the phenomenon of phantom Guo Degang essence.This paper attempts to analyze the game between mass culture and elite culturesthrough field theory of contemporary Chinese, in order to explore and study thebenefit of contemporary Chinese cultural development, and provide a new perspectiveon the game between mass culture and elite culture.