How Did the Enlightenment Affect Attitudes Toward Popular Culture

question 22

Multiple Choice

How did the Enlightenment affect attitudes toward popular culture?

• A)Enlightened authors embraced popular culture as an authentic expression of the human condition unaffected by Christian theology.
• B)Governments sought to use the critical perspectives of the Enlightenment to control and manage popular culture.
• C)As the educated public adopted the Enlightenment's critical worldview, they increasingly saw popular culture as superstitious and vulgar.
• D)Enlightened authors approached popular culture from an anthropological perspective that permitted them to analyze it without condemning it.