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This 4-page paper discusses the differences between popular/mass culture, folk culture and high culture, and selects elements in Dallas, Texas, with which to compare and contrast. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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types of these cultures from Dallas, Texas. To do this, well first define these three categories of culture.
Mass culture, or popular culture, which is also known as "pop" culture for short, is the culture that tends to be apparent in todays society (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com,
2005). In other words, pop culture is what drives society today, society from all levels. Pop culture is driven, to an extent,
by the media (i.e., film, television, magazines, newspapers and even the Internet) (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). However, the entirety of pop culture is the continuing interaction between the media and the people
(Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Pop culture, too, is undergoing constant change, and is specific to a particular place or time -- but items of
pop culture tend to appeal to a broad swath of the public (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Interestingly enough, folk culture (or the "folkloric" element)
is another form of pop culture, but it deals mainly with the people, as opposed to items, as pop culture does (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Folk culture happened mainly in pre-industrial times,
before the existence of popular culture (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Experts point out, however, that folk culture does still exist today in form of jokes, slang or other "folksie" types of things
-- and when they spread throughout the population through word of mouth and the general population picks up on it, it turns to popular culture (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Some people, in
fact, define popular culture as "the kind of folkloric culture that arises under heavy commercial influence" (Dictionary.LaborTalk.com, 2005). Using elements of Dallas,
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