Intro To Pop CUlture

Framing Popular
Culture
Pop Culture
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Introduction
An obvious starting point in any attempt to

define popular culture is to say that popular
culture is simply culture that is widely
favored or well-liked by many people.
Low/Popular Culture
The cultural behaviors

and ideas that are
popular with most
people in a society
High Culture
Cultural Patterns that

distinguish a society’s
Elite
Mainstream Culture
● The Cultural Patterns that are

broadly in line with a
society-’s cultural Ideals and
values
Sub Cultures
● Cultural Patterns that set

apart a Segment of a society’s
population
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Melting Pot
● A melting pot is a metaphor

for a society where many
different types of people
blend together as one.
Ethnocentrism
●The practice of judging one

culture by the standards of another
Afrocentrism
● A school of thought that re-centers historical and

sociological study on the contributions of
Africans and African- Americans
Multiculturalism
● A perspective that, rather than seeing society as a

homogenous culture, recognizes cultural
diversity while advocating for equal standing for
all cultural traditions
Prioritizing one sub culture over another can
create social inequalities and
disenfranchise those who belong to
cultures that are at odds with the
mainstream
Counter-Culture
● Counter-cultures push back on

mainstream culture on an attempt to
change how a society functions
● Push back politically against
mainstream culture
Cultural Lag
● Coined by Willian G. Ogburn in 1992

● It is the process where the non-material culture is
not able to keep up with material culture. It is
believed that it is because of this lag that the
social problems and conflicts are caused
Cultural Diffusion
●How cultural traits spread from

one culture to another
Symbolic Interactionists
●All of society is about the shared

reality-The Shared Culture-That
we create
Popular Culture
● A Quantitative
Dimension
Popular Culture
● A second way of defining popular culture is to

suggest that it is the culture that is left over after
we have decided what high culture (culture of
the elites, aristocrats, well-educated) is.
● In other words, it is a definition of popular
culture as inferior culture.
Popular culture in relation to High Culture
● In other words, to be real culture, it has to be difficult.

Being difficult thus ensures its exclusive status as high
culture
● The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argues that
cultural distinctions of this kind are often used to support
class distinctions.
Taste
● Taste is a deeply ideological category: it

functions as a marker of ‗class's (using the term
in a double sense to mean both a social economic
category and the suggestion of a particular level
of quality).
For Bourdieu (1984), the
consumption of culture is
‗predisposed, consciously and
deliberately or not, to fulfill a
social function of legitimating
social differences‘.
Pop culture and High Culture
● This definition of popular culture is often

supported by claims that popular culture is
mass-produced commercial culture,
whereas high culture is the result of an
individual act of creation.
Popular Culture
● If mass culture is something that is produced, and

popular culture is something that is consumed
(Marbach, 2015), a third way of defining popular
culture is as ‗mass culture‘.
● Commercial Culture
Fads and Trends
Fad
●Appear Suddenly
●Enormously Popular
●Disappears suddenly
Trend
●Appear suddenly
●Becomes Popular
●Doesn’t Disappear
Fad vs Trend
• Fad usually stay within one Trend can cross over many industries
industry
• Fad are often promoted by
small companies
Fad Trend
● Note Taking ● Taking Pictures and Screen Shots

● Distance Learning or Screen Recording
● Handouts ● Online Class
● Collaboration or Meetings ● Modules or Manuals
● Send to many texts ● Google Meet or Zoom
● Courtship by hard labor ● Group Chat
● Courtship through social Media
When does a fad becomes a trend?
●No one knows!

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Framing Popular

An obvious starting point in any attempt to

The cultural behaviors

Cultural Patterns that

● The Cultural Patterns that are

● Cultural Patterns that set

● A melting pot is a metaphor

●The practice of judging one

● A school of thought that re-centers historical and

● A perspective that, rather than seeing society as a

● Counter-cultures push back on

● Coined by Willian G. Ogburn in 1992

●How cultural traits spread from

●All of society is about the shared

● A second way of defining popular culture is to

● In other words, to be real culture, it has to be difficult.

● Taste is a deeply ideological category: it

● This definition of popular culture is often

● If mass culture is something that is produced, and

● Note Taking ● Taking Pictures and Screen Shots

●No one knows!

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