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SOCIAL classes; ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965; NOTES Toward the Definition of Culture (Book); RULING class; CULTURE; HISTORICAL sociology

This article presents information on issues related to class culture. It is informed that class terminology goes back to the end of the eighteenth century. T.S. Eliot, a poet, in his book titled "Notes Toward the Definition of Culture" opined that culture is formed and maintained by ruling classes. Eliot explains classes in terms of functions, but the historical record shows that in a culture's creative period the ruling class is honored not merely for what its members do but for what they are. It is concluded that classless society is not an ideal but a curse attached to specific historical developments in which class structure degenerates and natural leaders disappear.