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nikichick24
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The question is 1. What is popular culture? 2. Should we study it? Why or Why not?
Popular Culture (Pop Culture) is collection of ideas or themes that are popular, well-liked or common and create the prevailing culture. Popular Culture is what makes up our everyday society. It comprises the daily interactions, needs and desires and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, consumption, mass media and entertainment such as sports and literature.
Studying popular culture allows us to understand why people engage in this range of cultural practices and tells us a lot about what is going on in our society, how people try to connect with each other. Pop culture is what is hot at the moment. Popular Culture is changing all the time. It's kinda hard to study it but at the same time. Studying old popular culture could help bring it back to being hot. We can make it better. For example Bell Bottoms Jeans, were very much fashionable for both men and women in the late 1960's and much of the 1970's. Then in the 1990's, they went from bell bottoms into flare and boot cut jeans. Because someone studied bell bottoms and turn them into something better so the new generation would think they are hot.This is only one example, there are many examples out there. Eric L. Wee stated "Popular Culture is our future" That is fair statement, because they are taking once before older popular culture and turning into better and newer popular culture.
My point is that pop culture very much reflects our real lives and if we don't look at it closely or examine it closely we may miss out on ideas or commentaries about our reality that we will never get from the news media or from such throwaway entertainment like pop novels or reality shows. Also if we don't demand change from it, we will just end up with the horrible recycling of pop culture with no substance.
Thats what i got how does that sounds? do you think it completes the questions?
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My point is that pop culture very much reflects our real lives and if we do not look at it closely or examine it closely, we may miss ideas or commentaries about our reality that we will never get from the news media or from such throwaway entertainment like pop novels or reality shows. In addition, if we do not demand change from it, we will just end up with the horrible recycling of pop culture with no substance. The American way of life revolves around popular culture. The environment surrounding people will shape the lives and personalities of those individuals. Although popular culture is part of our life’s, culture is everything that occurs in a society.
Popular Culture (Pop Culture) is collection of ideas or themes that are popular, well-liked or common and create the prevailing culture. Popular Culture is what makes up our everyday society. It comprises the daily interactions, needs and desires and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, consumption, mass media and entertainment such as sports and literature.
Studying popular culture allows us to understand why people engage in this range of cultural practices and tells us a lot about what is going on in our society, how people try to connect with each other. Pop culture is what is hot at the moment. Popular Culture is changing all the time. It's kinda hard to study it but at the same time. Studying old popular culture could help bring it back to being hot. We can make it better. For example Bell Bottoms Jeans, were very much fashionable for both men and women in the late 1960's and much of the 1970's. Then in the 1990's, they went from bell bottoms into flare and boot cut jeans. Because someone studied bell bottoms and turn them into something better so the new generation would think they are hot.This is only one example, there are many examples out there. Eric L. Wee stated "Popular Culture is our future" That is fair statement, because they are taking once before older popular culture and turning into better and newer popular culture.
My point is that pop culture very much reflects our real lives and if we don't look at it closely or examine it closely we may miss out on ideas or commentaries about our reality that we will never get from the news media or from such throwaway entertainment like pop novels or reality shows. Also if we don't demand change from it, we will just end up with the horrible recycling of pop culture with no substance.
Thats what i got how does that sounds? do you think it completes the questions?
added more for the last paragraph.....
My point is that pop culture very much reflects our real lives and if we do not look at it closely or examine it closely, we may miss ideas or commentaries about our reality that we will never get from the news media or from such throwaway entertainment like pop novels or reality shows. In addition, if we do not demand change from it, we will just end up with the horrible recycling of pop culture with no substance. The American way of life revolves around popular culture. The environment surrounding people will shape the lives and personalities of those individuals. Although popular culture is part of our life’s, culture is everything that occurs in a society.