Folk Culture And Popular Culture

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.

The hippies of the sixties and seventies are one of the most recognizable groups from counterculture in American history. They decided to disregard materialism and greed and sought to live full of self-awareness (Macionis 49). Counterculture always seems to be viewed negatively, even long after that culture’s peak popularity. Mainstream cultures tend to belittle the countercultures, from reducing hippies to weed-smoking tree-huggers, the ‘90s grunge scene to a bunch of angsty and dirty teenagers, and today’s hipsters to pretentious upper-class kids with way too much time on their hands. This belittling doesn’t end once the trend has passed. Those in the mainstream still have fun complaining about those who aren’t, running the joke into the

Seeker churches show how Christianity has been influenced by popular culture for a number of reasons. One of those reasons being the contemporary atmosphere in these churches. Often, the area from which the preacher delivers his message appears more like a rock stage than a traditional church. Additionally, these churches tend to play more contemporary music with Christian messages. This contemporary setting and the contemporary music cater to people who do not want the traditional church atmosphere, but still want to receive service and sermons. Additionally, many of these churches do not identify with a denomination of Christianity, and some do not even identify with Christianity at all. An example of this type of “seeker church” is the Crossroads church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In the article, “What Is Popular Culture and Why Study It,” Deanna Sellnow describes to one the importance of pop culture in our world today, how it shapes people’s identities, and the reasons they should be aware of our culture today. Whether people realize it or not, Sellnow says that pop culture screams at them from every angle of their lives. Although pop culture can be the things seen and heard in one’s surroundings, it is most prevalent through media. Movies, magazines, and music are all examples of mediated popular culture that is cheap entertainment for the enjoyment of the mass population. Many people are influenced when they tune in to the messages these things are sending. Some of these messages may challenge

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Pop Culture permeates our society and is now the first and last thing we think about every day. Almost every waking moment includes pop culture in some way, as society has embraced this new way of life. Parents use electronics to entertain their children and keep them out of the way, and children use them to avoid their parents. Escapism, guilty pleasures and popular culture define each other in ways that they didn’t in the past and now our world is trying to reconcile it.

What is now considered as cultural appropriation is when people see or hear about someone else’s culture or way of life and use it to benefit themselves, mainly for monetary gain or popularity, without a care as to it’s true meaning or purpose. During the minstrelsy era, cultural appropriation came into play when it was used to get a few laughs by making fun of their differences. This led to minstrelsy being heavily misappropriated as a way for white supremacists to prove that they should remain dominant over blacks. Fortunately, nowadays minstrelsy and blackface are looked down upon and is not being used in popular entertainment today. The use of another’s culture for personal gain does still happen, not always in a negative manner as minstrelsy,

The names we are given are essential in forming our identity. It is the way we are addressed by everyone starting from birth. It is the beginning of how we define ourselves in our own terms `as a result of growing up and experiencing life. In Indian culture, from The Namesake, the grandmother chooses a good name for the child before they are born. Gogol was supposed to be a pet name only used by family and close friends. For Gogol, his name highlights his differences to everyone else, but more importantly, himself. He endures a consistent struggle with his two cultures throughout the novel. He, as a young adult, is searching for acceptance of both his traditional Indian culture and American culture. The Namesake, explores the theme of identity by examining the differences of both cultures. He has two names and therefore two identities, Gogol and Nikhil, and throughout the novel he looks for a way to incorporate them into one whole.

Chapter 10 presents a more politicized approach to cultural studies. Storey examines the ways in which popular culture and high culture are often presented in contrast with one another, drawing distinctions between ‘them’ and ‘us’. Again this can be related back to hip-hop, which was formerly or still held as a rebel culture, to now a unified one. It is the pipeline for effectively communicating to and with young people. The pipeline connects to the political, social, and cultural views of the vast majority of Western youths. My generation does not fondly find unity and/or enjoyment in higher art forms such as opera or ballet, but finds it more in the art of hip-hop. I feel like we need to have a view that culture has a value, not just in terms

3. Progressively, high culture has been seen to be supplanted by popular culture is driven on by 'democratic conditions.' It is the certified articulation of an imaginative phenomenon which is exceptional whereby low culture is much of the time fabricated for a group of people of consumers. Low culture is sometimes seen as a 'judgment expression' to mean anything that is the inverse of high culture, and in the cutting edge, age alludes to anything that is created by culture industry to make a benefit. It is viewed as an examination of the standard may make critical advances into society. However, it has attributes that make it pervasive and steadily evolving. The advent of phone and computer innovation and the availability of multi-media has

A few references to past history that have been presented in popular culture are the videos, “Dark Horse” by Katy Perry, “Remember the time” by Michael Jackson, and the nursey rhythm “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. Each of these songs display a historical setting or theme, which makes the song unique. “Dark Horse” and “Remember the time”, both have Egyptian themes, while “Baa Baa Black Sheep” was about England’s social class in 1700. These songs are important because they have provided entertainment to the current culture, while portraying unexpected references to the past.

When it comes to pop culture characters, one can tell that many of them have a lot of similarities, though they may have been made many generations after the first character. The coming of age really sculpts how new characters that are more fit for people nowadays will continue the legacy of what the previous ones had started. In the case of the ones chosen for us, though they are different characters, they all share the same themes. Which for us was being fables or stories that have been told to teach usually younger children lessons in life. What to do and what not to do, mostly simple mistakes.

In the realm of Christianity there are several denominations where their doctrinal beliefs and traditions are followed religiously. Through the story of the “Traditions of the Elders” in Mark 7, this paper focuses on the origin of culture and the false perception it gives that is was created by God. Although culture religious traditions can have association with God, culture and religious traditions are not are not from God and can prevent people from doing what God wants

A culture is where a group of people develop common ideas, common ways of doing things and common interpretation of certain things. Culture has great influence on foreign countries. People often from other countries get attracted to cultural aspects of other countries. Culture has great influence on media, politics and people’s everyday life. I experienced a pop culture moment where a group of white women was wearing a sari, a cloth that is draped around the woman 's body; it is mostly seen in South Asia. I saw how culture could be imported instead of being exported. However, those women didn 't wear the sari correctly, which raised a question in my mind. Do people wear, ethnic cloth because they respect it, or do they mock the culture by not wearing the clothes correctly? This question is about appreciation and appropriation of culture. This topic is very important to me because I was being bullied in middle school because of my cultural clothes and food. Adopting another culture is natural because of interaction between a group of people and it 's also because everyone is so diverse now. However when does appropriation or offending other culture comes up? Appropriation can be viewed positively and negatively. Culture appropriation can be viewed positively if it 's being portrayed correctly and it also can be viewed negatively if it 's being portrayed wrong. We often see cultural appropriation is being discussed in the media such as the sound,

Before Mead, detailed immersive field work was not a common practice, and at the time the book was published the idea of living with native people was fairly ground breaking. Mead’s fieldwork was done entirely in the Samoan language, because few, if any at all of the natives spoke English. I believe this to be the best way to study a culture. Total emersion into another society’s culture and traditions would be the only way to truly grasp the concepts with in a culture. Although difficult as it might be, living with, practicing, and observing a cultures daily activities is the only way to get a true representation of the culture and its traditions. This will allow an anthropologist, as it did Mead, to use of cross-cultural comparison to highlight issues within other societies. As a person who left Ethiopia at the age of twenty three to live in Germany for two years and then live in multiple places within the United States I feel like I have been doing field work for the last seven years. I have been total immersed in a culture other than my own since that time and have been studying and observing these cultures to find a way to adapt and fit into my surroundings. Just as Mead was living in a society that didn’t speak her native language this has been an obstacle I have had to overcome and work diligently at to adapt to. I know firsthand some of the difficulties that come with communicating and learning in a different language and how simple mistakes in language can sometimes