Popular Science

He starts comparing music to science and research. At this point in the article, Babbitt is expressing his views about the public being kept up-to-date with highly educated research. Yet those who are aware of this research are not aware of his music. He later goes on to further state…

maintain differences between groups, however, as seen historically, “science” would be used to justify these constructs. In feminist discourse, bodies of color especially, are often not properly acknowledged, being one of the most marginalized groups, thus the persistence of the representation of them as being deviant or invisible reflects a power struggle and the desire to assert and maintain control over them. Today in popular culture, a key figure that reflects the continuation of such…

a prosperous time. The fundamentals of the prosperous 1950 's were new cars, suburban lifestyle, advances in technology and medicine, and pop culture. Since Americans were receiving a larger income it lead to more spending on extra items American popular culture made the 1950s one of the most prospering decades; However, celebrities of the 1950 's were threatening American moral values in a negative way along with the new society developing. The 1950’s was a prospering time in the economy but…

Popular Culture Final Assignment A. Questions and Answers 1. What is meant by high culture, low culture, and folk culture? Explain and give some example! Answer: According to Rob Kroes (1996) in the book entitled If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall, Europeans has the metaphors that the use to visualize America and one of those metaphors ‘represents it as a country of leveling, erosion, and shallowness’. Kroes also mentions how ‘Europeans tend to pride themselves on a firm sense of…

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…

still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely theme all around the world, people never seem to be bored seeing apocalypse movies. John Wallis and Kenneth G.C. Newport say “The topic of apocalyptic thought in popular culture is…

Today, the animated 20th century American political culture revolves around the widely accepted idea of an ongoing culture war among states and voters alike. The term of a “culture war” is most commonly and enthusiastically used by the journalistic community and is defined as the displacement of ordinary economic conflicts by moral and religious ones in the advanced democracy. Moreover, news, media and other political studies seek to represent pictorially and statistically a deeply divided…

Introduction Geek culture is an arguably deviant subculture that originated from the term "geek," which was originally a pejorative term for a highly intellectual outcast. Nowadays geek culture refers to the subculture that surrounds activities such as collecting and reading comic books, participating in role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, dressing up as an animal or superhero, boys enjoying the children’s television show “My Little Pony," and even just being…

The concepts that I will be discussing are: ethnocentrism, popular culture, attribution error, social interaction, and stereotypes. Ethnocentrism is “the belief that one’s own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of your own culture”, or in simpler…

Lizzo has become very popular in the last year with lyrics like “I don’t need a crown to know that I’m a queen”. She can be described as a breath of fresh air in hip-hop culture with her body-positive message. One of her songs from Coconut Oil, “Good As Hell”, was in the soundtrack for the movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut. Lizzo is very different from other hip-hop artists for a number of reasons; she is based out of Minneapolis and the other being that she is a classically trained flutist. In…