Cultural practices: Things we do and live
Social cohesion: Similarity, things we do the same that bond us together. Culture brings social cohesion.
Why is popular culture a bad thing?
- Bad influence (poor role models)
- Not healthy in some cases
- Takes away an individual identity
- Un educational in some aspects
- Limits a persons ability to achieve
- Superficial, not related to the real important issues
- Not intellectually challenging on any level
- Simple version of life
- Worthless, just a trend, soon forgotten
- Distracts people from real issues in life
- Makes people spend money
- All americanised, following another countries culture
- Sexist, portrays women in different ways to relaity (photoshop, magazines, music videos)
- Lives up to the typical teenager stereotype, turns them into 'wreckheads'.
- Helps people relate to eachother
- Brings social cohesion
- Some movies can make you think intellectually
- Gives ambition to be in movies or have lives like those who are
- Develops things from high culture into todays day and age with technology
- Gives more self-confidence, higher self esteem
- Helps us to achieve our ideal self
- Makes us feel better than others with less within the culture
- Provides balance between relaxing and learning
- Some popular culture can deal with problems and issues, such as helplines after a soap opera.
- Entertainers are violated by choice whilst making a point, Miley Cyrus/P!nk.
- Some culture empowers women and shows their strength, for example p!nks songs.
- Good because its popular
- Drives technology, access to knowledge and information
- Educational, higher vocabulary and better knowledge involved
- Engaging your brain, intellectually stimulating
- Doesnt represent or influence crime or violence
- Shows development into todays society
- About more issues, has a wider focus
- Timeless
- Makes us morally civilised, teaches us to be more civilised
- Requires huge skill, work of genius
- Aspirational
- Accessible to everyone, TV, museums, CD's
- Has more meaning and relevance to issues
- Mostly for the people who have power and money
- Racist/sexist. Mostly composed by white men who were upper class
- Out of touch with the modern world, out of date.
Different people may think that different things are more important than others, meaning they think it has more 'Cultural Value' or is more 'Culturally Valuable' than something else. These personal opinions can be determined by these factors:
- It is worth money
- It is popular
- It is new
- It fulfills a need in society
- It is part of tradition
- It is morally civilising
- It produces a reaction
- It is emotionally important to an individual
- It is respected by others
- Its influential
- Its stood the test of time
- It is original
- It is challenging
- Its produces by talented people
- It is valued by those in power
- It brings social cohesion
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