Noun

Singular popular culture

Plural uncountable

popular culture (uncountable)

  1. The prevailing vernacular culture in any given society, including art, cooking, clothing, entertainment, mass media, music, and style

Synonyms

Category: English nouns

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Wed Jun 10 20:18:13 2009

Popular culture (commonly abbreviated as pop culture) is the totality of distinct memes, ideas, perspectives, and attitudes that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture. Heavily influenced by mass media (at least from the early 20th century onward) and perpetuated by that culture's vernacular language, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and "dumbed-down" in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result of this perception, it comes under heavy criticism from various scientific and non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist and corrupted.

It is manifest in preferences and acceptance or rejection of features in such various subjects as cooking, clothing, consumption, and the many facets of entertainment such as sports, music, film, and literature. Popular culture often contrasts with a more exclusive, even elitist "high culture", that is, the culture of ruling social groups. The earliest use of "popular" in English was during the fifteenth century in law and politics, meaning "low", "base", "vulgar", and "of the common people"; from the late eighteenth century it began to mean "widespread" and gain in positive connotation. (Williams 1985). "Culture" has been used since the 1950s to refer to various subgroups of society, with emphasis on cultural differences.

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Wed Jun 10 21:44:33 2009

Can you identify mentions of Boeing in popular culture?
Q. I'm collecting mentions of the Boeing company or their products in popular culture. Do you know of any?
Asked by Rainier - Wed Jan 16 22:17:24 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments

A. If it aint a Boeing I am not going
Answered by stuttgart - Wed Jan 16 22:33:33 2008

What is the popular culture of egypt?
Q. can u tell me something about what makes up the popular culture of Egypt? i'm trying to get an ideea about the egyptian people as a whole and their culture.. from what i've seen there, egyptians are a very warm people who love chatting and taking logs walks down the nile and they love their basbusa, kunefa and koshari... oh and goha.. but what makes u a people? don't tell me about the past, tell me about the present "camping for university male students" what does this mean?
Asked by Catcy - Wed May 14 12:04:13 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. well as egyptian we like alot jokes we always like to tell jokes and the famous word when any one start to tell joke we say ( adeema ... it means it's old we already knew it ) i think the most thing also we like to drink tea alot so oriental cafe is so important part of our daily life even smoking shisha ( not good for ur health somking is bad as u know lool) but egyptians attiude and way of life change completly if u wanna see 180 degree of change you should see egypt in the holy monthe of ramadan we change our way of life even egypt becomes tottaly diffrent we talk alot how the economic stander is not god and there is many bad things we don't like and there is bribes there is not enough jobs for young ppl wrongs… [cont.]
Answered by caramelachampagne - Wed May 14 12:57:36 2008

What was the popular culture and society like in America during 1945 to 1963?
Q. links to other websites please? and how did this effect US history? thanks!
Asked by ellie. - Mon Apr 6 14:38:03 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. That was the era from the end of World War II, until the time of the Kennedy Assassination, and just before the Beatles reached the US (early 1964). It is only 18 years, but years that were very different in the beginning, as the war ended and by the time of the Kennedy Administration. The music in 1945 was Big Band and Swing, Frank Sinatra was probably the biggest star and becoming a movie star. By the early 1950s TV was becoming popular, with stars like Milton Berle, Lucille Ball and Cuban born Desi Arnaz, making one of the first big TV stars in America a Hispanic man; and a lot of singers like Sinatra, Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Rosemary Clooney (yes, George's Aunt) and others. There was also a lot of R&B and Hillbilly (Country)… [cont.]
Answered by Rubym - Mon Apr 6 14:58:38 2009

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Mass culture

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