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Popular Culture, Popular culture is often said to be synonymous with the…
Popular Culture
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Concepts:
- Of the people. (Denotation)
- Mass of people, (Connotation)
- “Culture: The social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. The sphere of meaning, which unifies the spheres of production (economics) and social relations (politics).”
Popular has two meanings:
- On the one hand it refers to specific objects, practises and individuals who are popular, famous, or widely enjoyed at a particular historical moment
- On the other hand, it refers to a timeless range of practises that are related to a particular domain of the social order.
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Two types ;
Low Culture
- Associated with the bottom of the social: The working class, minorities, victims of capitalist society
High Culture
- Associated with great works of art
- Provide intellectual stimulation
Culturalism
- Culturalism rejects the idea that people are passive dupes, believing instead that the working classes have always produced their own culture
- But that this authentic, working class culture is being destroyed by a mass-produced culture of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and so on.
Second definition
- Looks at popular culture considers it to be more concerned with production than with consumption.
- Is the emphasis on what people actually do with the products that they purchase, or what they do with objects and practises that they create for themselves – producing cultural meanings
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- Popular culture is often said to be synonymous with the entertainment that comes from the large commercial media, including television, cinema, the music industry, and so on.
- It also regards things that we might not ordinarily think of as products – like movies, for instance – as commodities that we consume in the act of viewing, or music that we consume in the act of listening.
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- Working class people is capable and intelligent individuals who have, for generations, produced their own means of mass-produced entertainment.
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- Working class people do have the potential to resist the mass cultural
industry