Characteristics of popular culture pdf

101 Characteristics of Americans/American Culture To help you compare and contrast what you observe of American culture and your own, mark the similarities and differences between your culture and what you have read about in this book. 1. America is enormous: the third largest country in the world with a population of more than 300 million Characteristics of Culture always a product of human behavior always transmitted through learning always gratifies human needs always tends toward integrating a society f Culture is learned and acquired not instinctive acquired through the senses and from experience habits, skills, vakues and knowledge f may be acquired through Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving force behind popular 1. Cultural artefacts or media content produced for mass audiences. This equates popular culture with commercial success. The formal features of mass-media content may be interpreted in terms of broadcast codes. In critical theory, this is mass culture: the standardized commercial products and media texts of the culture industry, produced for the masses; these are alleged to reflect the Popular Culture: A wide-ranging group of heterogeneous people, who stretch across identities and across the world, and who embrace cultural traits such as music, dance, clothing, jewelry and food preference that change frequently and are ubiquitous on the cultural landscape. changing the old ways. This is the characteristics of culture that stems from the culture s cumulative quality. 6. Culture gives us a range of permissible behaviour patterns: It involves how an activity should be conducted, how an individual should act appropriately. 7. Culture is diverse: It is a system that has several mutually interdependent Abstract. The concept of culture is deeply contested. Between 1920 and 1950 alone, at least one-hundred-and-fifty- seven definitions were presented (Kroeber and Kluckhohn 1952, 149). Having Introduction. Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. It includes media objects, entertainment and leisure, fashion and trends, and linguistic conventions, among other things. Popular culture is usually associated with either mass culture or folk culture, and 6. Culture is accumulative. Culture is not a matter of month or a year. It is the continuous process and adding new cultural traits. Many cultural traits are borrowed from out side and these absorbed in that culture which adopt it, as culture is accumulative and combines the suitable cultural traits. 7. Culture is integrated Without wanting to endorse the neo-liberal argument that the inalienable right to choose is always being exercised, or that any satisfaction we derive from popular culture is always complete and without its own contradictions, one should not overlook the fact that the consumers are not only passive dupes of the market. Popular Culture Popular culture is an integral part of daily life through-out east and southeast Asia, and reflects the ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioecon