Popular sovereignty

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…

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…

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a tattoo is defined as “an indelible mark or figure fixed upon the body by insertion of pigment under the skin or by production of scars.” Tattooing and body modification has been practice dating back to Eurasian Neolithic farmers in 4000 BC, thought to be a healing remedy based on the particular placement on the arms, legs and throughout the body consisting of various dots and lines. In today’s culture, the idea of getting a tattoo has shifted from…

How to Target the World Paris, Shanghai, New York, Tokyo, Berlin; these are some of the top fashion epicenters worldwide. These cities are the driving forces of cultural trendsetters who have major influences on design, commerce and eventually the economy ("Fashion Capitals"). Being internationally recognized as having strong identities in fashion, these capitals develop a mixture of business, recreation, and cultural activities to compensate for. This huge success, no matter the place, is…

This was because when a lot of teens watched or listened to something it became popular. The teenagers influenced singers like Paul Anka and Elvis Presley by listening to their music. Anka became a singer, and a composer. Anka was very popular.. He was loved by many parents because they thought he was a good boy. Presley was another popular singer he was the 50 's legend. He was described as "rock ability." He was the lead figure of rock n ' roll. Unlike Anka…

Evolutionary psychology looks to explain that the way individuals behave and act are due to the way we, humans have evolved, but can be used to understand other concepts as well. In this paper, I summarize an article by Gad Saad, entitled, “Nothing in Popular Culture Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution,” and evaluate its claims regarding the importance of evolutionary psychology in comprehending pop culture (2012). This is an important issue because evolutionary psychology is not…

Both convergent media and multi-modal viewing have had a profound effect o the way that popular culture is both produced and consumed. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most salient of these is that it changes the fundamental way that people interact with culture, as well as one another. That is, these convergent forms of media allow users to talk and interact with popular culture like never before, meaning that these new mediums, especially the internet, act as a "glue" for…

the late 1980s, the cultural policies within Korea were “wholly protectionist” and focused on conserving Korean culture from western influences under the belief that western popular culture would blemish traditional Korean culture (Kim 2007, p.147). The origins of the Hallyu, however, began during the 1990s, with Korean popular songs and soap operas being adopted into Chinese media as a part of what was dubbed, the “Hallyu Syndrome.” The term “Hallyu” had been derived from a CD called “Hallyu”…

It doesn’t help to be oversensitive, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid it. “Literary intellectuals love to sneer at polls and surveys,” writes Dominic Sandbrook in his determinedly informative and frequently entertaining attempt to analyse what makes British culture tick, “but historians cannot afford to do so.” The survey being putatively sneered at reveals the immense popularity of The Lord of the Rings; presumably the implications of that popularity, rather than the fact of it, which must…