Monday, June 2, 2014

What is popular culture?

Business, marketing and advertising plays an important role in the promotion of any kind of Popular culture. It focuses on the influences of the consumer and its target audience. The foundation of popular culture is large but essentially knowable range of music, T.V, Movies, and advertising that most are people familiar with. And all the new technology and social media that deliver the popular culture to us makes it easier for the society to get effected.
Popular culture nowadays is merely a subset of a large category of human activity. The term of “Culture” was defined to designate what some would consider a higher form of “intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic development.” (Williams 1983:90). However, culture now is considered as a “popular-higher culture”, which makes it more privilege to the society to be most valuable.
It’s obvious that any product has a power meaning and proposes for its existence, they do not just appear simply like that, but they raise a result of the conscious efforts by some to influence in their values, especially in this modern world where advances in technology make the dissemination of ideas to a larger and larger audience much easier to achieve. We live in a world that’s called “mass-communication” where ideas and values is they’re on a daily basis, and many forms of media serves us as a tool to share those ideas and values. So the term “Popular Culture” here is refers to widespread and well-liked products, themes, values that have achieved their popular status as a result of their dissemination through the modern technology. (Clark, 2012)


References:

Terry Ray, Clark.  (2012). Understanding Religion and Popular Culture: Theories, Themes, Products and Practices. London: Routledge.



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