Popular American Culture University of Phoenix Soc/105 Introduction to Popular American Culture MU10ELC07 Ernest Hernandez Ph.D. August 3‚ 2010 Popular American Culture American pop culture is an every day part of life. Society dictates how people need to be to be accepted by others. American pop culture dictates who we are‚ it is our attitudes habits and actions; it is generations of handed down customs and practices (Wilson‚ 2001). Popular Culture Inventory The mass circulation of
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Discuss the relationship between gender and the sitcom genre in one screened episode of one sitcom studied in this unit The Simpsons). Your discussion should pay particular attention to the ways in which generic conventions of the sitcom are employed as a means for exploring gender roles and/or sexual difference in the nominated episode and the series as a whole. Gender in The Simpsons. It is known in today’s world‚ that males and females are seen as two distinct separate classes‚ owing mainly to
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Mass Media and Popular Culture: Effects on the Population Mass Media and Popular Culture Mass media and popular culture go hand in hand. This paper will discuss the impact of mass media on enculturation‚ examine the relationships among media‚ advertising and the formation of normative cultural values‚ and discuss the impact of the internet on popular culture and the way we communicate today. Real world examples of this impact will be provided to prove our point of view and the overall effect
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and thus large audiences 2. Segmentation -> refinement in the business model Advertisers could separate groups based on the type of audience Packaging up demographic groups and selling them to advertisers Principles of the production of popular culture Contradictions embedded -> what aspects of reinforce the current system and which are against it We have a classes system -> Marxists think that these classes are submissive Late 1800s – early 1900s -> working class and what they talked about
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American Popular Culture Austin R. Lee SOC/105 Introduction to Popular American Culture March 28‚ 2012 Hilary Hicks American Popular Culture The Purpose of this paper is to define the term “Popular Culture” as well as identify major trends in American popular culture. After identify major trends in American Pop-culture the paper will go on to analyze the impact that each trend has on personal decision making. In order to define the term popular culture a person must first understand the
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American Popular Culture To many‚ the United States is first and foremost a superpower. Some see it as exerting its might in the interest of world peace and stability‚ and as a guarantor of the freedom and even survival of other nations. To others‚ it looks more like a bully imposing its will upon the entire planet by brute force. I believe that McCaffery’s statement that "...virtually every corner of the globe is being successfully colonized by for example‚ American popular culture
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Defining Popular American Culture The study of culture is very important to our society‚ as we have been studying our past and identities for as long as we can recall. Studying our cultures allows us to understand each other as a people‚ so we can comprehend what we have done‚ and possibly‚ what we may do. As we study American popular culture‚ we see something that began as almost nothing‚ to a group of patterns that has captured the minds of not only the American people themselves‚ but the whole
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An advertiser’s main goal is to make money by any means necessary. Therefore‚ it is no surprise that advertisements in the media today are preying upon young women’s insecurities and producing more and more advertisements that show how sex sells in the media. Throughout virtually any magazine or image in the media‚ a reader will find more women than men shown in the advertisements. Some of these advertisements include women interacting with men in a sexual manner‚ women wearing the slightest bit
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Popular Culture Deanna Sellnow clearly explains the idea of popular culture in her article “What is Popular Culture and Why Study It?”. Popular culture is a very difficult concept to understand. After reading Sellnow’s article however‚ pop culture is simply just how people’s lives should apparently be. People watch television shows and see the families and think thats how their family should be or they see the actor’s actions and think thats how they should act as well. Popular culture is just
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Reflections of Pop Culture on Society Popular culture‚ commonly referred to as "pop culture"‚ is constantly changing and heavily influencing people worldwide; one can hardly tell the history of the human race without some mention of pop culture. Pop culture molds and defines the beliefs and values‚ as well as‚ influences the actions of society. Social media‚ as well as the natural ache we all carry to fit in‚ pushes people to embrace and succumb to pop culture. Pop culture greatly influences
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