Chapter 4

Question 1

What makes something popular?

Answer 1

• Most viewed
• Most liked
• Most consumed
• Most mediatized
• Most talked/ heard about
• Successful advertising
• Aggressive marketing
• Meet current needs
• Innovation
• Collective unconscious

Question 2

is a universal language that manages, in all seemingly trivial glory, that makes us all dream and smile, to connect us across racial, political, and social divides. It is part of our fabric as human beings.

Answer 2

Pop culture

Question 3

Who said “Pop culture is a universal language that manages, in all seemingly trivial glory, that makes us all dream and smile, to connect us across racial, political, and social divides. It is part of our fabric as human beings. It says something about us , about our better nature .”

Answer 3

Alexandre O. Philippe, TEDxMileHigh

Question 4

Popular Culture is….1.

Answer 4

• Is the culture which is popular
• Well-liked
• Common
• Culture actually made by people itself
• Culture of people
• Culture of masses

Question 5

• A “left-over culture”

Answer 5

Popular culture

Question 6

• Heavily influenced by mass media

Answer 6

Popular culture

Question 7

• Generally recognized as vernacular of people’s culture that predominates in a society at a given time

Answer 7

Popular culture

Question 8

• Influences and mirrors people’s everyday engagement in life.

Answer 8

Popular culture

Question 9

 Popular culture or is sometimes referred as

Answer 9

low culture

Question 10

, is comprised of the “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people”

Answer 10

Popular culture

Question 11

the products and forms of expression and identity that are frequently encountered or widely accepted, commonly liked or approved, and characteristic of a particular society at a given time’

Answer 11

Popular Culture

Question 12

 Entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes memes images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture

Answer 12

Popular Culture

Question 13

Forms of Popular Culture

Answer 13

• Music
• Television
• Sports
• Toys
• Comic book
• Films
• Advertising
• Fashion
• Magazines
• Cyber Culture

Question 14

represents a simpler lifestyle, that is generally conservative, largely self sufficient, and often characteristic of rural life; is local in orientation, and non commercial

Answer 14

Folk culture

Question 15

is not mass produced, nor meant for mass consumption. It belongs to the social elite; the fine arts, opera, theatre, and high intellectualism are associated with the upper socioeconomic classes.

Answer 15

High culture

Question 16

Formation of Popular Culture

Answer 16

Urbanization
Industrialization

Question 17

• is a key ingredient in the formation of popular culture

Answer 17

Urbanization

Question 18

• Diverse people would come to see themselves as a ‘collectivity’ as a result of common, or popular, forms of expression.

Answer 18

Urbanization

Question 19

• brought with it mass production; developments in transportation, such as the steam locomotive and the steamship; advancements in building technology; increased literacy; improvements in education and public health; and the emergence of efficient forms of commercial printing, representing the first step in the formation of a mass media ( eg the penny press, magazines, and pamphlets).

Answer 19

Industrialization

Question 20

What influences Pop Culture

Answer 20

Film, television, news media, music, publishing house, anime.

Question 21

What Makes Pop Culture Unique

Answer 21

• It is constantly changing
• It is specific to time and place

Question 22

is something that somehow becomes popular within mainstream society over a long period of time.

Answer 22

TREND

Question 23

It is the direction of a sequence of events that has some momentum and durability.

Answer 23

TREND

Question 24

is something that is very popular with a small group of people for a short period of time.

Answer 24

FAD