Definitions for popular culture
pop·u·lar cul·ture

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1. popular culturenoun

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

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1. Popular culture

   Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous 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. Heavily influenced in modern times by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics. However, there are various ways to define pop culture. Because of this, popular culture is considered an empty conceptual category, or something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across different contexts. It is generally defined in contrast to other forms of culture such as mass culture, folk culture, working-class culture, or high culture, and also through different theoretical perspectives such as psychoanalysis, structuralism, postmodernism, and more. The most common pop-culture categories are: entertainment (such as movies, music, television, and video games), sports, news (as in people/places in the news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.Popular culture is sometimes viewed by many people as being trivial and "dumbed down" in order to find consensual acceptance from (or to attract attention amongst) the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably from religious groups and from countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, or corrupt.

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1. popular culture

   Popular culture refers to the wide range of entertainment, ideas, beliefs, fashion trends, and practices that are prevalent and commonly embraced by the masses within a society. It encompasses various forms of media such as music, films, television shows, literature, fashion, art, sports, internet trends, and other elements that shape and reflect the preferences and interests of a particular society at a given time. Popular culture is a dynamic and ever-changing phenomenon that influences and is influenced by societal norms, technological advancements, and the collective imagination of the people.

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1. Popular culture

   Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, 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, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.

How to pronounce popular culture?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of popular culture in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of popular culture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of popular culture in a Sentence

1. Jehan Chu:

   It’s really become popular culture and mainstream, people are no longer asking ‘Why should I invest in bitcoin?’ They’re having to defend why they’re not.

2. Noam Chomsky:

   All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

3. Crystal Echo Hawk:

   Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.

4. The ADL:

   Whether intentional or not, this gray and white stripped pattern and pink triangle combination is deeply offensive and should not be mainstreamed into popular culture.

5. Robert Reisz:

   When we see dinosaurs in popular culture, such as in Jurassic Park, we see them depicted with big teeth sticking out of their mouths.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Popular_Culture
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Culture
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=popular culture