Running head: POPULAR AMERICAN CULTURE
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Popular American Culture
Christopher E Britt
SOC/105 INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR AMERICAN CULTURE
October1, 2012
Shelley Howell
POPULAR AMERICAN CULTURE
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Popular American Culture
What is culture? What is popular culture?
Culture
is defined as the common model of behaviors and relations, cognitive
constructs, and
affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These
shared patterns identify the members of a culture or group while also distinguishing those of
another group.
American pop culture
means of the people it is the entirety of thoughts, point of views,
position, images and other actions that are believed and preferred through an unofficial
consensus within the conservative and given society. Popular culture is greatly influenced by the
mass media, and fill the daily lives of many people. The phrase “popular culture itself comes
from the 19
th
century saying, in original usage referring to the education and culturedness of the
low class society that was delivered in an address at the Birmingham Town Hall, in England. The
