Popular Culture

A Popular Culture is an Attitude (Psychology) that ...

• See: Sensationalism, Attitude (Psychology), Idea, Image, Point of View (Philosophy), Phenomenon, Mainstream, Cultural Anthropology, Western Culture, Globalization, Mass Media, Everyday Life.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/popular_culture Retrieved:2017-10-21.
  • Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (such as movies, music, television, and video games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang. Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics. Popular culture is sometimes viewed as being trivial and “dumbed down” in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, or corrupt.

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