ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses nature of the response invited by the popular material, a word indicating a social change which takes advantage of and thrives on basic literacy. The fact that illiteracy as it is normally measured has been largely removed only points towards the next and probably more difficult problem. The chapter suggests that working-people are not so much visited by a feeling of anonymity as might appear to those who observe them from outside. It examines the way in which newer forces are adapting and modifying elements in what was a fairly distinctive working-class culture. Concentration has gone a long way but has had to pause at the rough boundaries of the present most important division in social class, that between working-classes and the middle-classes. Working-people may in much give their consent easily, but that is often because they think themselves assenting to certain key-ideas which they have traditionally known as the informing ideas for social and spiritual improvement.
