Popular Culture And Pop Culture

Sociology is not only a study of diversification or shared characteristic among individuals, but it is a scientific study of society, and human behavior. it examines the patterns of social relationships, social interaction, culture, and how these factors elicit responses. Pop culture is a culture found in an extensive society of individuals. Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture. They share many of the same tendencies despite the differences in characteristics. Also, use of combined technology to target an extensive group of followers instead of targeting different groups, which may lead to the dislike of another group or groups. Technology …show more content…
Technology sets the framework for a group’s nonmaterial culture. If a society’s technology changes, so does the way the people think and how they relate to one another. An example is gender relations. Throughout centuries and throughout the world, it has been a custom for men to dominate women, which is called nonmaterial culture because of the beliefs and values it represents. Today’s technology makes this custom more difficult to maintain. Like for example, when women watched television that showed women doing men jobs and working, they observed an unfamiliar freedom in gender relation. As these women use e-mails and telephones to talk to one another about what they have seen, they both convey and create discontent, as well as feelings of sisterhood. These communications motivate some of them to agitate for social change. So in today’s world, value and beliefs are being disregarded by …show more content…
Science technology is used to design products that improve the quality of human life. Around 1959, Wilson Greatbatch invented an internal pacemaker that restarts the heart if the patient heart can’t beat on it’s own. This invention of technology changes the culture in a positive way, because those who have heart blockages due to aging, damaged from heart attack, or other conditions that disrupt the heart’s electrical activity use pacemakers, which saves lives. Science technology is few of the technologies that have a positive impact on the culture.
Technology and culture are two forces that greatly influence one another. Even though, technology may change the way the people think and how they relate to one another, it’s an on going process. As new technology is introduced into a society, the culture reacts in a positive or negative way and is thus changed