Derf's Theory Of A Fad

The audience’s expectations regarding the author’s prose might have been surprised towards what he had to say about the relationship between teenagers and tattoos. I would think the audience already considers it to be an academic article because that is what it looks like to me, but maybe the topic would be about something different. The evidence his audience expects him to use would be maybe statistics, but his case vignettes provide some evidence. They might think that teenagers are rebels and arrogant, but after reading the article, it is possible they open up their minds about it a bit more and consider that tattoos are not as bad as people make them out to be, especially when teenagers get them. Throughout Martin’s article, valid points are made as he views tattoos as a whole. He discusses tattoos as a form of identity as well as a permanent marking that the teenager uses as a sense of

Popular culture is culture found in a large, heterogeneous society, that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristic. Popular culture can consist of: a popular song, performer,movie or tv show, comic trip, “super hero”, etc.

Pop culture, or popular culture, is knowns as a term appeared in mid 20 century. It is defined as the categories of entertainment, politics, sports, fashion, technology, and have a way to influence a person's opinion to a certain topic.

The movie Mean Girls favors popular culture when it comes to fashion, music, and trends. When Cady and Janis cut holes into Regina’s tank top a majority of the girls also did so because the most popular girl so it was considered to be cool. Most people try to fit in to avoid being harassed by those who are popular and those who dare to not conform are more vulnerable to harassment. The girls who attended Cady’s school were more likely to make fun of eachother than the boys.

“On Teenagers and Tattoos” is an informational article, written by Andres Martin, which discusses the reasons and psychology behind the rising popularity of tattoos amongst adolescents. Martin (2000) starts by identifying the simple reason of causation concerning the spike, stating that “tattoos and piercing can offer a concrete and readily available solution for many of the identity crises and conflicts normative to adolescent development” (p.143). Martin then details the strenuous nature of adolescence, and shows that tattoos have more of a symbolic meaning than just a skull, and provides 2 examples of such cases. Afterward, Martin explains in further detail,

Throughout American history and the 1900’s, fads have been a hugely successful form of self expression. From fashion, to recreation, to dumb and sometimes dangerous things that youths do, fads are a way to distract from the troubles of the world and find something else fun to do.

One example of this is Madonna, which Derf includes in the cartoon. Probably the intention of adding Madonna using a “booger”, which symbolizes a piercing, is to demonstrate that probably she is not really using that booger because she loves it but more because she wants to stay in actuality with her fans and media so she could gain more fame. With this example, Derf wants to demonstrate that people just follow others to “fit in” in actuality or society. He wants to express to people they should be unique in their own ways without the influence of anyone. Furthermore, Derf also mocks how High School students are influenced and manipulated by media. In the cartoon, he clearly critiques how Tabitha Soren appears in the very popular channel MTV with a booger, which is watch by an immense young population. He attacks this by saying that after she appeared in television “30 million High School kids blindly follow” the booger fad. With this statement, he clearly critiques how people, in this case students, are influenced and manipulated by media. Many times, these persons adopt a fad so they are not discriminated or ignored in school because they are not “cool” since they are not using a certain fad. Often, people feels it is necessary to feel “cool” so they can be accepted in society and not be judged, and that is why they start using a

Lastly, a teenage girl goes to the mall after school with the popular girls, but they begin encouraging her to steal an expensive pair of earrings in order to officially become a part of their group. These days, teenagers are so willing to do anything to befriend a group of people they disregard their morals and are only concerned about the approval of others. In today’s world, people find it extremely difficult to not conform to the beliefs and opinions of others because they do not want to feel ostracized.

In the 1940’s many changes were occurring culturally in the United States, many due to the war that was being fought. In this essay, many of these cultural innovations will be discussed and assessed. As will the events that caused such changes and evolutions in the American culture.

The environment has a lot to do with how epidemics occur, And that is how many trends come about. Just like in the book, The Tipping Point there were two kids that were wearing hush puppies in East village, and some high fashioned stylists seen them. Later on they skyrocketed and sold over 600 thousands pairs.There is no other explanation more better than how the environment has many effects on how we look and or how we dress, the environment plays a big part on how products tip and how trends become more popular.

Around the middle of the 20th Century man cultures started to grow beyond what they previously were thanks to different mediums (such as television and music) helping to push boundaries; with this came the birth of pop culture. Considering pop culture is a shortened version of popular culture it’s clear that many of the things in pop culture would be short lived. The short lived trends and happenings are labeled as “fads”. Strangely enough, some fads progress beyond their short lifespan and actually become a mainstay in the varying international cultures. One such example might be familiar as it is common in today’s society. This example is, indeed, video games.

The plastics represent the dominant culture in the high school. They are the group that most of the people in the school aspire to be and they also somewhat set the norms. This is exemplified when Regina's shirt has hole cut into her shirt. Once she wears the ripped shirt once the rest of the school follows by cutting their own shirts and it turns into a new trend. On the other hand the art freaks represent the counterculture because they are the ones that see how horrible The Plastics really are and who try to break the dominant culture. The audience can see this counter culture when they device a plan to break up The Plastics. They use the new student Cady to pretend to be friends and gain information about them to help them down the line to bring down the dominant

However, what is popular culture in the context of society? Popular culture is the accumulated store of cultural products that are consumed primarily by non-elite groups such as the working, lower, and middle class. Thus, popular culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the people’s culture, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: the use of slang, styles of attire, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular culture. Popular culture is also informed by the media; people have certain interests that appeal to them and they seek more information regarding it. Media thus helps to propagate this popular culture because in addition to reaching those who have already adopted society’s popular culture, so too can the people who have yet to be exposed to it join in. This is a phenomenon that we also see with the emergence of soccer. Soccer had first started out as a way for English elite to socialize among themselves. The inception of modern soccer was actually due to the ‘import’ of European soccer to the countries they were

The origin and history of graffiti is not what one might expect. Believed to have been created by a Philadelphia high school student named Cornbread in 1967, it was a bold effort to catch the attention of a girl (De Melker). In this same time period, graffiti sprung up in New York as well. It was “one among many forms of social protest” during

Nowadays trends are everywhere. You can find them in every industry and they play a huge role. The retro trend in clothing, the SUV trend in the car industry, but nowhere else are trends more important than in the hospitality industry. But what exactly is a trend? A trend describes usually the time measurable course of a development into a certain quantitative and/or qualitative direction. In economics, trends are changes of the behavior of the society. In marketing research this describes the change and development of the consumerism and consumption behavior.