Popular Culture
Definition of Popular Culture
The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Popular Culture: Intellectual opinions of popular culture, the culture of the masses, have been deeply shaped by critical theory. Since the Frankfurt School, which identified with the ‘high culture’ of the intellectual classes, popular culture has been seen as trivial, demeaning and commercialized, serving the interests of the capitalist system. Post-modernist theorists, however, no longer accept the belief that there is some objectively superior high culture setting a standard from which to make evaluations of others. They have been more interested in popular culture as representing the voices of the previously silent, and by adopting the methods of film analysis or literary criticism they examine the way popular culture is produced and the underlying assumptions upon which its meaning rests. See: CRITICAL THEORY / CONSUMER CULTURE / POSTMODERN in this legal dictionary and in the world encyclopedia of law.
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Notes and References
- Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Popular Culture. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada
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Translation of Popular culture
- Spanish: Cultura popular
- French: Culture populaire
- German: Volksbrauchtum
- Italian: Cultura popolare
- Portuguese: Cultura popular
- Polish: Kultura ludowa
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