The effects of Kitsch concept on the aesthetic perception and taste of high school students

This study aims to find out the degree of the influence of kitsch concept on the taste and aesthetic perception of students who live and study in different high schools in the centre of Ankara and the reasons why students adopt the products of kitsch.Day by day, because of the development of cultural degeneration and the high spread of popular culture, the concept of kitsch and its products affect not only people from different classes of society but also our students in the education system.This study aims to explain the students? aesthetic perception and taste development, kitch products which are produced by the ideology of culture industry and also aims to find out the answers of the questions why students are influenced by the kitch products and how they can protect themselves from these negative effects. Because; if our students adopt or if they are influenced by the degenerated, deceiving work of art which has no artistic value and which has been produced with financial worries to serve the continuation of the system, the development and structure of our future society and new generation will be influenced negatively.After the analysis of the results, it is seen that the education level of the families of the students who are studying in high schools effects students habits of reading books, watching TV, interest in arts and adoption of kitsch products.In the conclusion part of the study, suggestions of the researcher take place which are based on the problems mentioned.