High society (group)

See High Society ( musical), for the feature film of 1956, see The upper ten thousand.

High Society (English " high society" ) means certain, especially celebrities and media personalities prominent in society. The term is colloquially and not a social science term. In German-speaking countries, the term glitterati is needed, which is in France but not known ( there is said to haute société ).

Importance

The High Society today takes basically the old role of the nobility one. With the end of the caste system and the rise of the bourgeoisie in the course of industrialization, the foundations for the association converted to high society: noble descent into the background and was replaced by famous ancestry, so celebrities or pseudo- celebrities.

More abstract concepts such as economic or political power, wealth and beauty became applicable. Especially in the more prominent, media-savvy parts of the high society occurs increasingly added to the marketability of the individual.

Presence

Last but not least the high society met by their presence in tabloids the information needs of readers regarding unusual life forms, strokes of fate and the nature of their management, but also by scandals, generally thus the need for materials that are rarely found in the life of the general population.

The media coverage of high society is seen by some members not only as a blessing but often experienced as a curse, as when intimate details of the private lives of individual personalities on public issues are. So the relationship between the press and high society is ambivalent: on the one hand, looking just less well known and not so well-established members of the public attention by deliberately staged scandals and taboo violations, while others can be from the often intrusive sensation reporters ( paparazzi ) feel disturbed, occasionally leads to legal dispute and sometimes even to blows, which then in turn become the media- scandal and certainly sometimes are only productions for obtaining media attention itself. The combination of high society and the press is extremely tight and constitutive of both sides in this ambiguous sense.

Especially apparent in public, those parts of high society, which can be often seen at parties around the world ( Jetset ). Here is the press can also report on little things such as the clothing preferences of celebrities so times can be bridged without any major scandals.