Cultural Differences: Similarities Between Popular Culture And Pop Culture

Culture is fundamental to how we analyze, interpret, and engage in the world around us. Culture is moulded by history, politics and the circumstances in which we live. Culture is a set of principles that we adhere to. It is a set of behaviours that is common to a specific class of society. It is through culture that people are defined, and share particular value systems. “Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behaviour, acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e. historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on

Popular culture also known as ‘Pop culture’ is based on the tastes and attitudes of the masses. It is heavily influenced by mass media and is not revered by the educated elite. Popular culture emerged in the late twentieth to twenty first century. Examples of this can be seen as movies, television shows, sport, and mainstream music. Pop culture can be defined as anything that appeals to the masses. It can be seen as distracting and superficial, detracting from the many important social issues. Jenks

They are measure against elements of high culture. This can be seen as a very real divide within society. As has been previously cited there is a marked distinction between High Culture and Popular culture. Though, the examples of high culture and popular are somewhat definite, it provides a clear outline and a basis for the thesis of this essay. Culture and society will always have class structures whereby one group of people govern the other. The ideology of those in high culture will always be apparent and supported by those who lead in the many powerful organizations, such as the political and economic groups within our society. Storey