Sociological Views Of Pop Culture

Pop culture, what does this term even mean? It seems to be a word that contains subjects of media, social structure, and society as a whole. According to the dictionary, pop culture is defined as “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people”. In the society we live in today, we are constantly surrounded by pop culture, either that is with television, magazines, different sources of social media and/or exposure to others. Due to pop culture being such a dominant contribution into our world today, it has effected many parts of society. The domination of social media has created idealistic views that are stressed upon female adolescents in particular. Upon media’s influence, traditional tactics and work have been modified in order to keep up with our technology oriented society. This alters the schools and education systems. Through the use of television, social media and other means of pop culture, serious study is necessary due to the negative effects it has on the younger generation and the effects it has for their futures.

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine the USA without American popular culture. The American popular culture is inside and around us, people feel it every day and they even do not think of it, when they eat fast food in McDonald’s restaurant or watch a popular TV show with Oprah Winfrey, or purchase their favorite Levis trousers. American popular culture is a topic of interest for every generation because it seems to influence almost each aspect of the social life, making people united.

Popular culture is a fusion of interest and activities that groups of people share. merely, anything that has to do with entertainment is popular culture, such as Movies, TV shows, actors, singers, toys, games, sports, clothes and the list continues. In many ways, popular culture touches every aspect of our lives. It plays such a major role in how our society views the world and how we perceive everyday things. Pop culture has a way of effect our lives no matter what we do to thwart its’ influence.

Today popular culture has a substantial effect on our lives. It can affect what we wear, what music we listen to, or even how we behave. Many people decide what clothes to buy depending on what is in style or what celebrities are wearing. The same happens when people choose what movies to see or what music to download. While pop culture may seem harmless, it exposes people of all ages to sex, drugs, and violence. Children and teenagers all over the world are watching these shows or listening to these types of music. They take what they hear or see and develop bad habits or make poor decisions. Popular culture including movies, music, and franchises mostly has a negative effect on countries who import it.

As America headed into the 1980s, two decades of social and political upheaval have left the nation rattled and the economy weakened. The Iran hostage crisis shook America's confidence and many looked for a new kind of leader to steer the country into the new decade. Ronald Reagan led America into a new era of prosperity leaving the soul-searching of the 60s and 70s behind. The nation was ready to enjoy itself and with plenty of new toys to play like VCRs and video games, Americans spent more time at home and soon something called cable TV would make it even harder to leave the living room. With the new innovation of the TV, one of the ideas for a channel was a marriage between music and television. This new idea for a channel devoted to something called music videos would end up revolutionizing and often scandalizing an industry that had no choice but to embrace the fact that music in the 1980s had to have a face with videos. By having these music videos, they would change the way we look at music and the way we look at the world. This cutting- edge idea was a new medium perfectly suited to a new generation and that idea was called, MTV. This leads to the question: How did MTV influence pop culture of the 1980’s? This topic is worthy of investigation because the coming of MTV has had a significant impact on the way people see pop culture. Before researching the topic, the writer had limited knowledge on MTV and only knew about the music itself. In the paper, the writer was

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

Alcohol, drugs, and sex: this is the “recipe” for a typical teenager in pop culture. Stereotypes of high school students appear in countless movies, books, and television shows. Based on media sources, a prevalent opinion of teenagers is that they are extremely rebellious, selfish, and irresponsible. Society has become used to a negative image of adolescents; many just ignore how teenagers actually act. Despite the fact that many consider these visual representations of high schoolers are true, only a few of these representations are correct. However, there may be more variables involved. For example, these young adults may be facing stressful decisions or handling immense family situations. Although each individual high school exhibits unique characteristics, high school students can be split into three distinct classifications: brainiacs, jocks, and underachievers.

Mass Media is evolving and taking more shapes than were relevant with children growing up in my generation. Kids currently growing up are growing up in a technologically based society in every aspect. Technology has evolved and has become so advanced and it is the perfect place for popular culture to plant its roots into. I believe that kids growing up currently are seeing a negative side of Popular Culture. They are growing up and learning to be dependent on their phones and on pop culture for what is right and wrong instead of going out and finding things out themselves.

Whether popular culture appears on a television, in a magazine, or music on the radio, we just cannot seem to get away from it. Because of peers, family, and platforms of social media, popular culture has an extensive impact on society, and it represents our views as a whole. Popular Culture remains self-explanatory. It represents modern beliefs, ideas, and actions that get spread in many ways. It unifies people across the globe and allows for these people to have similar interests.

Popular Culture is defined by its relationship to the digital revolution and how the two feed off of each other. Pop Culture is the accumulation of advertising, blurring of cultural norms and the growth of mass media. People are able to share things with the click of a button and be it the art of Di Vinci or the reality show you have been obsessing over for the past couple of months. These things all build on each other as the world has expanded with the growth of mass media, it is possible to look down at your phone in the middle of class and tell everyone how boring it is, or that your class has some kid that is chewing with his mouth open during the lecture. There is also the ability to google infamous artists and see how their work improved through the time they were active. It is the ability to go to see Mona Lisa in a tv and the characters are attempting to steal it, on a random tv show hundreds of miles away from the actual painting. In Doctor Who, there is an episode where the Doctor and Amy Pond go to visit Leonardo di Vinci before his death and how at the time he is a man, who is lost in waves of depression and rejection from all of those who are alive at the time. I believe that Doctor Who is the show to see the growth of pop culture because it has been around as it has grown and the show explores all avenues and reflects what is scaring society and more throughout the last fifty years and the growth of the media industry.

The media influences how people experience social life. Media such as newspaper, television and film, are important sources of information, education and entertainment. It can be used to learn more about the world and the people in it. In this regard it can be said that the media represent, interpret and endorse aspects of social experience (O’Shaughnessy and Stadler, 2005). The media are also implicated in social regulation, or in other terms, the government of society. The media are implicated in government and politics in an obvious way because modern systems of democracy are conducted through the media. But the media have a bigger role to play in government by structuring how society is controlled and maintained.

Popular culture has an undeniable influence on how society perceives itself. When examining mass culture, one must keep in mind the equilibrium between how much we, as a society, affect the way popular culture is constructed and to what extent popular culture influences the way we view ourselves and shapes our ideologies. An aspect of popular culture that may serve to greatly exemplify this theory of society as both the affecter and the affected is the genre of magazines targeted at young women. Though these publications are targeted as the representation of our society’s adolescent females, they actually have a great influence over the ways in which teens view and construct

What pops into your mind first when you think of popular culture in today’s day and age? The latest dirt on celebrities or the latest iPhone release? The latest controversial issue or the latest iTunes hit? Regardless, pop culture encompasses all four of these concepts and many more, which consume the world we live in each and every day. Think about education. At first thought, your mind may not make the connection between the newest Taylor Swift song and the highest ACT score, but the linkage between the two becomes undeniable when you dive deeper. Ponder this: each day millions of kids walk into school buildings across the United States, each of them glued to a little slice of pop culture, a.k.a. their phone. And each day these millions

Although many people believe that popular culture is negatively effecting our and our children 's lives, because it is saturated with meaningless information and dumbing us

Popular culture is generally believed to be comprised of a variety of elements. For example, popular culture covers the most contemporary and instant aspects of our lives. These aspects can often show the characteristics of rapid change, especially in today’s highly technological and informative world in which, people are highly influenced by the universal media. Certain standards of behaviour and common beliefs are reflected in pop culture. Because of its cohesion, pop culture both influences and reflects people’s daily life. Moreover, brands can reach iconic pop status. However, these aspects are not constant and may change rapidly. (Abbott and Sapsford, 1987).