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Richard Hoggart founded the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Although he is an educator, he is not far from the world of workers. He lived in them and was able to observe them. Hoggart, a good observer, was very interested in cultural reviews. In his work, The Uses of Literacy (The Importance of Literacy), he focused on the power and influence of the means of communication and worked on how the culture spread by these means affects the working class. In the end, he claims that the influence of these means of communication on the public is exaggerated and that the people are largely linked to their own culture and protect themselves from their changes and influences. Therefore, it expresses that the people live their own culture in their own microclimates, and therefore the studies should focus on it. Keywords: Richard Hoggart, The Importance of Literature, Culture, Workers' World, Media.

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Richard Hoggart founded in 1964 the Centre of Contemporary Cultural Works at the Birmingham University. Although being an educator he was not remote to the labour world. He lived amongst them and had the opportunity to observe them closely. Being a very good observer Hoggart gave great importance to cultural researches. In his work named “The Uses of Literacy” he dealt upon the power and impact of the means of communication and he dealt with the issue of how much the culture spread from these means had an effect on the labour class. As a result, he claimed that the impact of the means of communication on the public had been exaggerated and put forward the fact that the public had remained very bonded to its own culture and that it protected itself from the changes and the resulting effects thereafter. As a matter of fact, he expressed that the public had been living its culture within its micro atmosphere and added that researches had to be focused upon this issue.