ABSTRACT
If television can speak meaningfully to vast cross-cultural audiences, how can it at the same time take account of divisions within particular societies? In order to be able to understand the nature of the relationship between the television medium and the constituent groups of its culture, we should first indicate briefly what the divisions within society are to which it can respond. In a recent study of the contours of class relations in a society such as ours, Westergaard and Resler (1976) have attempted to show how the social divisions with which we are all familiar by simple observation are actually structured.
