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TRADITION OF CULTURE AND

CIVILIZATION
WHAT IS POP-CULTURE
• Culture
One if the two or three most complicated words in the
English language. (Willams 1983)

May refer to:


- A general process of intellectual, spiritual and
aesthetic development
- A particular way of life (lived culture)
• Ideology
The most important conceptual category in cultural
studies (Turner 1996)
- May refer to a systematic body of ideas articulated
by a particular group of people
- Maybe used to indicate how some texts and
practices present distorted images of reality
- “False consciousness”
- Power relations outside the “class”
POPULAR CULTURE
• Popular (Williams 1983)
- well liked by many people
- inferior kinds of work
- work deliberately setting out to win
favor with the people
- culture actually made by the people
for themselves
• It is the culture that is let over after we have
decided what is high culture.
• Definitions of pop-culture is often supported
by claims that it is mass produced commercial
culture.

• The field of popular culture is structured by
the attempt of the ruling class to win
hegemony and by forms of opposition to this
endeavor. As such , it consists not simply of an
imposed mass culture that is coincident with
dominant ideology, nor simply of
spontaneously oppositional cultures, but is
rather an area of negotiation between the two
within which – in different particular types of
popular culture – dominant, subordinate and
oppositional cultural and ideological values
and elements are mixed in different
permutations. (Bennet 96)

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