Popular culture studies

The Counterculture “The postmodern shift involves an intergenerational change in a wide variety of basic social norms from cultural norms linked with ensuring survival of the species to norms linked with the pursuit of individual well-being.” (Inglehart. 2). In everyone, a personal shadow forms. Within that shadow a person buries the qualities that don’t fit their self-image. Morals are instilled from people in the environment, and a person then learns what is proper behavior according to…

asia Johnson English 131.45 Essay 2: First Version Why I Love Pop Culture Contrary to what many believe, you wouldn’t be who you are if it wasn’t’ for pop culture. Pop culture is the way of life targeted towards younger people. A reason I love pop culture is because it links every person on the planet. It serves as a unifying force for people of all backgrounds. Pop culture includes music, sports, television, fashion, social media, politics, and print. However, the three most influential forms…

relationship between popular culture and the Australian society after WWII on the year 10 level for both the humanities and music leaning areas. This topic is part of the AUSVels year 10 history/ geography curriculum and aligned with the 2016 Victorian music curriculum. The main inquiry questions for this unit is: “How has global pop-culture (music, film and T.V.) influenced Australian Identity and society in a post WW2 environment?”. The three key terms for this unit are: globalization,…

desire it and since of the policies in place by our government. Meanwhile, any issues with clean energy are merely challenges that are required to be addressed, and that we have to be compelled to support clean energy and that we got to modification popular opinion on that. Bill Nye frequently shuts down ideas that he does not like or agree with. This has been shown to make his show poor…

ways over time. One such way is in pop culture: the accumulation of materialistic things, such as fashion, songs, and objects, and the non-materialistic things, such as ideas, beliefs, and values, of a population. Society and pop culture have a cyclical relationship - a revolution in society is reflected in pop culture, but a change in what is shown in pop culture can also impact society. The film industry is one of the most influential parts of pop culture through its wide reaching audience…

horizons. They should keep and open mind about different things because once someone does they learn new things and appreciate different aspects of others’ lives more. Kpop is not as bad as most people initially assume and by participating in kpop culture they could find that they enjoy different things. Not only kpop…

Nostalgia occurs within many individuals, communities and overall American society. From reminiscing the King of Rock n Roll, Elvis Presley, or even childhood toys like the Cabbage Patch Kids of the 1980’s. Practically in American society, the desire to reconcile and remember past historical figures or life-changing events lead to the construct of memorials and monuments. Building monuments or memorials are for the soul purpose of commemorating a person or event. Groups or an agency, in charge…

What is the Hipster Culture Really All About? What word first pops into your head when you first hear the word “hipster”? Some think high top converse, coffee drinker, others think cigarette, beanie wearing, politics lover. No matter what word we think of it always comes back to the millennial version of a hipster. No one really thinks into how this culture started and the background of it all. They first started in the 1940’s when the label was a “beatnik” hipster instead of the known…

Ancient Stories in Popular Culture George Santayana once said that “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” While Santayana’s quote usually accompanies a discussion about reckless wars and terrible genocides, it can also demonstrate that despite all of our technological and academic advancements, human nature stays the same. Which is why years, decades, even millennia will not change the effect that a great story has on humans. Epic tales of heroism are repeated and…

While the previous chapter discussed popular culture and its influence from the functionalism approach, this chapter examines it from the critical approach. The structure of this approach came from the ideas that Marx’s provided; both the social and economic structure of a society are a reflection of its culture and symbolic imagery (47). Cultural hegemony emerges as a result of power through persuasiveness; since society is nearly controlled by the mass media due to the fact that it creates…