Popular culture is the customs,
values, institutions and artifacts that are present at a particular point in
time in society that affect and are generally accepted by the majority of the
population in society. This type of
culture identifies with common elements of our lives and is representative for
most in our society. Popular culture is
constantly evolving and changing more rapidly in this technological age which
brings us closer and closer together through our electronic devices.
To me, popular culture represents a
set of ideals and values that have been distributed mostly by the media which
has great influence over the population that can communicate to most of society
and cannot be repressed by social barriers.
This encompassing culture is inescapable and cannot be ignored unless
you our outside of society. Since most
of us are part of society, popular culture affects our daily lives in the minutest
of ways from when we begin to speak and understand language to long into our
adulthood. The idea of popular culture
can be both good and bad depending on the message. It is up to us as intelligent individuals to
discern which messages are simply the “sign of the times” and which messages
are there to deceive us. Knowledge is
the tool we have to interpret our popular culture and begin to understand what
these values and ideals represent.
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