A dominant culture is one that is able through economic or political power‚ to impose its values‚ language and ways of behaving on a subordinate culture or cultures. This may be achieved by monopolizing the media and means of communication.¹ I would say the dominant culture in America is the pop culture. Pop culture influences the way we dress and even the way we talk. A lot of young people talk with slang words that their grandparents wouldn’t even understand. Pop culture affects everything
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others insist that the world is worse because of globalization‚ and it could destroy the tradition values and cultures of other countries. This essay‚ however‚ argues that even though globalization has been expanding more and more‚ traditions‚ local values and cultures will not be eroded. First of all‚ new ideas from other countries which are obtained via globalization will enrich local cultures. Secondly‚ a large variety of product will be brought to other countries‚ which encourages product diversity
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Cherie Fanelle Introduction to Pop Culture 27 November 2013 Television Shows of the 1950’s and Mass Culture During the 1950s‚ the average American was an optimistic reflection of the traditional values of the times. Then as the world around them began to change‚ so did the types of television programming they were exposed to. The era of the 1950s was an extremely confusing time as America was trying to adjust to its new role as a competing superpower and still trying to maintain the strong foundation
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Impact of Mass Media on Enculturation The mass media and culture go hand and hand in today ’s society. The American culture thrives on the Mass media and this has become American culture today. “Mass media is any medium used to transmit mass communication. Until recently mass media was clearly defined and was comprised of the eight mass media industries; books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ recordings‚ radio‚ movies‚ television and the Internet (Lane‚ 2007).” The mas media is no longer simple to define
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Pop Culture Speech Most of us have heard of the concept “imperialism‚” defined as the practice of one country extending its powers over the territory‚ political system or economic life of another country. Yet‚ we would never imagine that imperialism could affect us in this lucky country‚ especially in the form of popular culture. Never would we even conjecture the overall harmful motives of the dominating superpower‚ after all it assumedly is the ‘protector of democracy and human rights.’ But
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A subculture is an ethnic‚ regional‚ economic‚ or social group exhibiting characteristic patterns or behaviors enough to distinguish it from the more dominant or commanding culture. When choosing a subculture to look at there were many choices but‚ in the end‚ I chose to focus on the vampire culture. The vampire culture is a lifestyle based on modern vampire fiction which also comes from the Goth subculture but also incorporates elements of the sadomasochism‚ giving or receiving pleasure from acts
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Pop culture is transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. Pop culture can be expressed through many different ways such as fashion‚ music‚ television‚ movies‚ cars and sports. Pop culture was targeted at teens for many reasons. These reasons were that teens cared how they appeared and were influenced by the images and looks. After World War 2 finished‚ improvements to entertainment started to happen this gave people more ideas and new trends. To understand pop culture
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Pop culture is becoming an ever-growing ever-addicting way of life for our nation. I address it as a way of life because if you were to sit down and think about your day-to-day activities I could guess that some of those things include pop culture in some way. Personally‚ I am an admitted addict to everything celebrity and current. The majority of my life would have pop culture references in the mix. Now not only am I in this boat but most of America is. We see this based on how pop culture has now
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ability and skill in sports (Granderson‚ 2012). Role of Sports in Popular Culture Gender equality in sports is heavily influence by cultural and structural ideologies. In the past 40 years women are more accepted in the male-dominated world of sports. Although it is quite apparent that men are still very threatened by the thought of gender equality in sport‚ but in general as well. Restructuring ideologies on gender in culture and social habitat at a very young age is critical in the race to diminishing
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