Popular Culture Definitions PDF

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This document provides definitions of popular culture, encompassing various perspectives and characteristics. It details the attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and cultural artifacts that shape a society's popular culture. The definitions highlight the multifaceted nature of popular culture and its significance in understanding social systems.

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Definitions of Popular Culture: 1. Popular Culture consists of aspects of attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, customs and tastes that define the people of any society. (Ray Browne) 2. Popular Culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared mea...

Definitions of Popular Culture: 1. Popular Culture consists of aspects of attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, customs and tastes that define the people of any society. (Ray Browne) 2. Popular Culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and objects that embody the most broadly shared meanings of a social system. (Dustin Kidd) 3. Popular Culture is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. (Tim Delaney) 4. Popular Culture is a media content or cultural artifacts produced for mass audiences. (Oxford Reference) 5. Popular Culture is the everyday life or arts and artifacts of the people within a society. (Oxford Reference) 6. Pop Culture is the productive way in which audiences engage with the pervasive cultural currency to make it their own. (Oxford Reference) 7. Pop Culture is a mass media content which seeks to produce a particular conception of the collective identity of the people within a society. (Oxford Reference)

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