popular culture
Popular culture
In our civilization today, people seem to obsess over certain values that our society proceeds to the people that they need to consume by using advertisements through television, radio, magazines etc. These promotions of the latest trends such as fashion and technology, installs to the people’s head that we need to obtain these values to “fit in”. Also, the worlds “super stars” are heavily looked up to in our society. They create and image for himself or herself that the people seem to follow, for example everyone wanted to be like Mike in the Jordan era. These “super stars” are exploited to the people everyday and they may have an impact in others image such as, the way people dress and act. This act upon society can be defined as popular culture. Popular culture is dangerous for humanity because it is control within the society, “what we see is what we do”, consequently, in todays world all these advertisement that are exposed everyday are filled with violent acts, sex, drugs, money, and the use of alcohol; with all these negative attributes being promoted to into popular culture, it could potentially corrupt the minds of the youth making them to believe that these things are “cool” or “its the thing to do”. Taking a look at society today, there is a noticeable and drastic change with popular culture now and popular culture 100 years ago. Starting in the early 1900’s, society seemed to have higher standard of morality, men dressed up with a shirt and tie everyday and as for women, they would wear a dress that barley showed any skin. However, In the world of 2013 there are half naked women and men posted up all on billboards and other forms ads for everyone to see. Everyday people are being updated with the newest trends such as fashion and the people seem to follow these new styles with no hesitation because it is part of the social norm. The fashion industry, advertises its new designs by the mass media, making the people believe this
In our civilization today, people seem to obsess over certain values that our society proceeds to the people that they need to consume by using advertisements through television, radio, magazines etc. These promotions of the latest trends such as fashion and technology, installs to the people’s head that we need to obtain these values to “fit in”. Also, the worlds “super stars” are heavily looked up to in our society. They create and image for himself or herself that the people seem to follow, for example everyone wanted to be like Mike in the Jordan era. These “super stars” are exploited to the people everyday and they may have an impact in others image such as, the way people dress and act. This act upon society can be defined as popular culture. Popular culture is dangerous for humanity because it is control within the society, “what we see is what we do”, consequently, in todays world all these advertisement that are exposed everyday are filled with violent acts, sex, drugs, money, and the use of alcohol; with all these negative attributes being promoted to into popular culture, it could potentially corrupt the minds of the youth making them to believe that these things are “cool” or “its the thing to do”. Taking a look at society today, there is a noticeable and drastic change with popular culture now and popular culture 100 years ago. Starting in the early 1900’s, society seemed to have higher standard of morality, men dressed up with a shirt and tie everyday and as for women, they would wear a dress that barley showed any skin. However, In the world of 2013 there are half naked women and men posted up all on billboards and other forms ads for everyone to see. Everyday people are being updated with the newest trends such as fashion and the people seem to follow these new styles with no hesitation because it is part of the social norm. The fashion industry, advertises its new designs by the mass media, making the people believe this