abstract:Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (born 24 September 1918) is a British academic whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.
The founding of the CenterforContemporaryCulturalStudies (CCCS) at the Universityof Birmingham by Richard Hoggart in 1964 marks the establishment of cultural studies as a discipline.
Born in Leeds in 1918, Herbert RichardHoggart was orphaned at the age of eight and subsequently raised as an only child by five adult relatives (his grandmother, two aunts, an uncle, and an older cousin) in a terraced back-to-back in Hunslet.