Popular culture
Popular culture, according to Marsh and Alagona (167), involves all the values, customs, and usual ways of life that are unique to communities. Popular culture are found in large, urban populations that are heterogeneous, but do share the popular culture traits. Also it varies little from place to place but changes quickly. Popular culture does not reflect the local environment like folk culture, instead it’s more likely to modify or damage it because popular culture is not obtained from the local landscape but rather mass produced and imported into the local landscape (“Folk and Popular Culture”). A popular culture artifact, contrarily, refers to the items that a community and makes it stand out of the rest. One of such things
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Historically, the ancient communities hardly relied on the finished goods for food. Instead, the societies used the raw food material which they would cook to quench their hunger. The growth of certain crops, however, is primarily based on the geographical situation of the society. An example of food and agriculture from popular culture are industrial farming techniques based on hybrid seeds, mechanizations, and high levels of chemical use have spread all over the world (Folk and Popular Culture). Also in mass marketing of highly processed food, it leads to a cultural convergence of dietary habits worldwide along with associated health problems such as obesity, type two diabetes, and heart disease (Folk and Popular Culture). In particular, geographic variations come with a difference in the climatic conditions in the areas that are not geographically related. The resultant force is the ability to support the growth of certain foodstuffs that are unique to a climatic condition (Marsh and Alagona …show more content…
Looking at the high global population, there are different cultural and societal values and practices that define communities. The result is the apparent cultural diversity we witness in cities that house immigrants from various cross-border cultures. One important aspect of local culture, however, is that it is primarily based on the geography of the particular settings. Local culture are isolated groups that hardly change over time and ties to their physical environment. The routine practices of societies are responsible for the variation in the cultural beliefs of the different communities. However, the geography of the setting of the organizations plays such an integral role in supporting the practices that make societies unique. The uniqueness of the values and routine activities of the communities, to a large degree, depends on the mundane aspects of the locations that vary across the globe (Marsh and Alagona
The culture of a community invariably determines the social structures and the formation of a society. Developed over time, culture is the collection of beliefs and values that a group of people maintain together. Culture is never constant, and thought to be continually renewed over years as new ideas and concepts become mainstream. It ranges from how people live, day to day topics for conversations, religion, and even entertainment. It is analogous to guidelines, or the rulebook of the said group of people. Society, on the other hand, emanates from the social structure of the community. It is the very institutions to which create a regulated and acceptable form of interaction between peoples. Indeed, culture and society are so perversely intertwined in a
Popular culture refers to information or an event that briefly hold the interest of the public. These events and information are mostly heard or broadcasted on mass media such as radio, television, newspapers and the internet. It is one of the cultures that is easily accessible and considered much more entertaining by the greater part of the population in the world. It has helped in the enhancement of human relationships and socialization in our modern world. As a Haitian, below I try to outline some of the popular cultures I can think of.
In all quarters of the globe, you can see some form of popular (pop) culture shape an individual's behavior, sensibility, and perspective on life. Every culture, religion, and ethnicity has changed over time under the influence of pop culture whether it is based on food, clothing items, or simple values and beliefs. Dr. Lawrence Rubin describes popular culture as a, “...banality, it certainly seems meaningless...even potentially destructive. However, if instead we recognize that it is simply an expression of our collective experiences, its importance becomes more clear” ( Popular Culture: We are what we consume,2009). Yet, current pop culture can be seen as a heterogeneous social conception. Particularly, it is always changing and what’s new today will be old by tomorrow. Famous celebrities and latest trends of designs and
Come here rude boy, boy, can you get it up? Come here rude boy, boy, is you big enough? These are the lyrics that we can find ourselves mindlessly singing to on our way to work. Pop star Robyn Rihanna Fenty, the co-producer of this song, made history at this year’s American Music Awards when she was awarded the first-ever Icon Award, which according to the show’s producer, Larry Klein, was created to honor an artist whose body of work made a profound influence on popular music at a global level. Needless to say, Rihanna’s iconic fashion taste and innovative sound has enabled her to become one of the most influential and best-selling artists of all time. Rihanna however, is not the only woman making history in the music industry; Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez, and Katy Perry, just to name a few, are also very empowering women in the industry. Female pop-culture artists, alongside many male rappers in the industry, contribute tremendously in influencing American culture. Their immense contributions to the American culture are engraved in their catchy, explicit music lyri...
1) I agree that pop culture is always changing and that the young generation are the ones who are mainly in control of it. The reason I believe this is because there are new videos and memes that become popular that younger people are always coming up with. Something that I had a question about was the concept that pop culture was a part of capitalism because that didn’t make much sense to me seeing as though pop culture is just what’s popular at the time and not controlled by higher status people.
Culture often means an appreciation of the finer things in life; however, culture brings members of a society together. We have a sense of belonging because we share similar beliefs, values, and attitudes about what’s right and wrong. As a result, culture changes as people adapt to their surroundings. According to Bishop Donald, “let it begin with me and my children and grandchildren” (211). Among other things, culture influences what you eat; how you were raised and will raise your own children? If, when, and whom you will marry; how you make and spend money. Truth is culture is adaptive and always changing over time because
American popular culture is quite serious because we find the “voices” that write, play, film, photograph, dance and explain our American history. George Lipitz notes that historians can learn a lot about the process of identity and memory in the past and present by deciphering the messages contained in popular culture forms such as films, television and music. As stated by George Lipsitz, people can either work for the economy and state, and against the population who take in the messages or they can work in a positive way as memories of the past and hopes for the future.
In my opinion, popular culture is the combination of different beliefs into a singular social group in order to form an overarching culture for the group as a whole. The views of those in the lower class are valued just as much as those in the upper class. In other words, popular culture should include input from everyone, not just the social and academic
Popular culture can be defined as the general accepted culture in society. Anyone can learn about what is the generally accepted culture in America because it’s usually advertised in music, books, fashion, literature, schools and the mass media to name a few. In the book images of color, images of crime, chapter 1 shows how Indians have been negatively affected by popular culture throughout the years. However, I would say that many races have been affected by popular culture to the point in which the identity and the heritage of different culture is rapidly disappearing.
We have seen culture changes during the course of many centuries. These decades has left us memories of what was important to our society during this time. In some cases, we are still living by these same standards of past centuries and the results of these beliefs is the reflection of the people of this twenty century. The coauthors of Common Culture Reading and Writing About Popular Culture Michael Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure on their Seventh Edition says, “pop culture is the shared knowledge and practices of a specific group at a specific time. Because of its commonality, pop culture both reflects and influences people 's way of life; because it is linked to a specific time and place, pop culture is transitory, subject to change, and
In the beginning, the relationship between everyday culture and mass media culture are closed but there are some difference between popular culture and traditional culture. The traditional culture is known as ‘high culture’ which refer to literature, art, music etc. However, popular culture is the produced by mass media, may know it as low culture. People used to entertainment or relaxation. It shared and spread rapidly in groups, communities, societies and so on. Some people may say popular culture help us to understand more about the world because of the globalization factor.
In the contemporary society, popular culture represents the emerging lifestyles, fashions, values, as well as customs that the mainstream population follows without hesitation and with loyalty. It embraces a blend of philosophies, opinions, beliefs, viewpoints, and imageries, besides various forms of events that specific groups of individuals adopt in the society. Popular culture plays a significant role in shaping the way people think or perceive things by offering them a unique interpretation of something that they may eventually like. In this digital age, some of the popular culture known today takes account of television programs watched by many people, the numbers of individuals who currently use the internet constantly as the best means
Time is at a premium to take popular culture more seriously as a terrain of academic inquiry and ensuring a significant change in the outlooks of people at large turning it into more of established discipline. Conceptual barriers between so-called high and low culture have broken down, accompanying an explosion in scholarly interest in popular culture, which encompasses all diverse media. The question whether popular culture can actually resist dominant ideology, or even contribute to social change, is much more difficult to answer. A conscious effort by all can not only bring a positive change in attitude and ideas in relation to discrimination, but make huge social changes for a better world in the days to come.
It incorporates the daily interactions, needs, desires and cultural moments that make up the everyday lives of the society. It finds expression in day to day practices such as cooking, fashion, newspapers, magazines, television, mass media and the many facets of entertainment such as sports, music, dance and literature. Thus popular culture becomes “culture actually made by people for themselves” (Williams 111). In the essay “Notes on Deconstructing the Popular”, Stuart Hall defines popular culture as all the cultural activities of the people, or their “distinctive way of life” which is considered as popular within social context, and is popularly accepted within the society in any particular period (449). Popular Culture also accommodates cultural texts and practices which fail to qualify as the high or elite culture. This residual nature makes it a site of struggle between the marginalized and the dominant groups in society, where forces of incorporation and resistance against them come into
What popular culture and mass culture are, their significance to society and how they are consumed are very multifaceted questions that have been subject to wide debate is the fields of Sociology and Cultural Studies. Many theorists have chimed in on the debate to answer these questions. Two notable theories on this topic are that of Dwight MacDonald in his work “A Theory of Mass Culture” and John Fiske in his work “Popular Culture”. MacDonald argues that mass culture is a phenomenon that is detrimental to society. He believes that although mass culture is something that produced “by and for human beings” that is ultimately is what leads to the loss of individuality and individual thought and expression in favor