Slides

1. POL 375 / SOC 400
Fall 2018

13.  Popular culture is well-liked by many people.
 Who is doing the liking?
 Distinction between “High” and “Low” Culture
 Popular culture is what is left over after high
culture.
 Popular culture can be defined as mass culture.
 Commercial, Mass Consumption, Passive Consumption
 Popular culture originates from “the people”
 Wh0 are “the people?”
 People do not spontaneously make culture

14.  Popular culture is viewed as a struggle
between dominant and subservient classes.
 Popular culture in its modern form blurs
distinction between high and pop culture.

17.  Liberty
 Limited Government
 Economic Freedom
 Equality
 Democracy
 Majority Rule
 Individualism
 Rugged Individualism
 Conformism
 Unity and Diversity

22.  Participant Culture
 Democracies
 High Engagement
 Subject Culture
 Authoritarian States
 Difficult to Engage System
 Parochial Culture
 No Understanding
 No Role in System