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    Running Head: Popular American Culture Paper 1 Popular American Culture Paper SOC/105 Introduction To Popular American Culture June 11‚ 2013 Professor: Popular American Culture Paper 2 Analysis Culture is what defines a group of people‚ normally by: ethnicity‚ religion‚ beliefs‚ food‚ music‚ art‚ clothing‚ entertainment‚ and sometimes-generalized characters

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    What is the key idea in popular culture? The key idea in pop culture is that it is always changing. This is because pop culture identifies with the entertainment produced through and by commercial media‚ and there are different criteria for entertainment as time goes by. Popular culture includes the practices of everyday life‚ the activities and communicative practices of everyday life that people take part in or observe to entertain themselves are a part of popular culture. What are the characteristics/parts

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    woman? Throughout time‚ a woman’s body has been perceived in so many different ways‚ but today the most popular image for a woman’s body is one that is thin and lacks curves. Many things have influenced this ideal‚ but one of the biggest influences is popular culture. In earlier centuries‚ popular culture’s preference for voluptuous female bodies is depicted in early Western art. Today’s popular culture contributes to the ideal that being thin is not only one of the requirements for a modeling career

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    Crash (2004): Racial Tropes in Mass Media and Popular Culture The representation of race and blackness in the popular culture and mass media has become one of the cultural paradigms in the United States. This has turned into a culture of discussion‚ one that constantly decodes and repositions blackness as a ticket into the multicultural America. In effect‚ blackness seems to offer a functionality that is a dominant media trope for representations and debates on race and ability. Even though Americans

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    Japanese Popular Culture Reception in Southeast Asia Countries Case study: Indonesia Written by Mirah Mahaswari Department of Communication Studies Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Gadjah Mada University Indonesia Tuesday‚ September 8‚ 2009 Role of Mass Media on Japanese Popular Culture Reception in Southeast Asia Countries Case study: Indonesia Abstract The study of popular culture can be seen from three main approaches. The first debate will be on how popular culture able to

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    What was the difference between high and popular culture in the eighteenth century? A number of things would distinguish between high and "popular" culture. I think that "popular" as referenced here is something of a mis-nomer. Probably high and low would be more accurate characterizations. What I think distinguished high culture of this periord from those of other eras‚ was its extreme taste for the ornamental and superflousness. Members of the societal elite‚ were very fond of wigs; both men and

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    Culture Made Me Do It! Since the beginning of popular culture‚ people are following the trends. Popular culture comes to us in many ways. Some of the branches are music‚ and the film industry. Since the beginning of popular culture‚ the music and the film industries are changing in incredible speed. Throughout the decades‚ pop culture has become an important part of our lives. The more we try to hide from it‚ the more close it comes.  In our society today we especially see its effects on the

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    would be profitable to try to define culture; for a cultural studies researcher not only it includes traditional high culture (the culture of ruling social groups) and popular culture but according to Raymond Williams also everyday meanings and practices.As stated in Matthew Arnold´s "Culture and Anarchy" culture is “the disinterested endeavor after man’s perfection”.It was James Clifford in “Collecting art and culture” that defended that what we gather for culture is not always the same because objects

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    3.SALZMANN.MACRO.10.10.2011 (DO NOT DELETE) 1/12/2012 9:14 PM THE FILM LAW ABIDING CITIZEN: HOW POPULAR CULTURE IS POISONING PEOPLE’S PERCEPTIONS OF PLEAS Victoria S. Salzmann* TABLE OF CONTENTS I.INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 119 II.THE REALITIES OF PLEAS ........................................................................... 122 A. Positive Aspects of Plea Systems ........................................

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    Popular Music Popular music‚ or ‘pop music’‚ means ‘music of the populace’. The term embraces all kinds of folk music which‚ originally made by illiterate people‚ were not written down. The creation of a popular music that aims simply at entertaining large numbers of people is a product of industrialisation‚ in which music became a commodity to be bought and sold. It is in the rapid industrialised nations‚ notably Britain and USA‚ that we first encounter composers who have devoted themselves

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