Good or bad form: dassifying the books and grading the readers

An enquiry about reading interests has been held among public library users. The titles mentioned have been coded according to a two-dimension grid including the concepts of content and legitimacy. Three levels of legitimacy are defined, which give the social situation of a work: legitimate literature, medium literature, marginal literature. Generally speaking, the levels of the works correspond to the social position of the readers - induced by the educational level; the concept of level is more accurate than the concept of content to establish the reading interests.
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