true or fALSE?
1.Popular culture is simply culture that is widely favored or well-liked by many people that undoubtedly, such a
qualitative index would meet the approval of many people.
2.The difficulty in equating popular culture to a qualitative index is that a certain number should be agreed
upon to identify what is popular.
3.In the meaning of popular culture, a certain number or a qualitative dimension must be included.
4.Another suggested definition of popular culture is a culture that is left over after we have decided what high
culture is.
5.Popular culture in #4 is a residual category accommodating texts and practices that fail to meet the required
standards to qualify as high culture.
6.In other words, it is a definition of popular culture as superior culture.
7. More so, popular culture is often supported by claims that popular culture is mass-produced commercial
culture, whereas high culture is the result of an individual act of creation.
8.Another way of defining popular culture is a culture which is formulaic, manipulative and consumed with
brain numbed and brain-numbing passivity.
9. Within the mass culture perspective, popular culture takes one of two forms: a lost organic community or a
lost industrial culture.
10.One benign version of mass culture perspective is that high culture is understood as a collective dream
world.
11.This (#10) means that, popular culture provides escapism that is not an escape from or to anywhere, but an
escape of our utopian selves.
12.For example, cultural practices such as Christmas and seaside holiday function in much the same way as
dreams articulating, in a disguised form, collective wishes and desires.
13. One problematic meaning of popular culture is it is a folk culture because it evades the "commercial"
nature of how popular culture is made.
14. Hegemony refers to the way in which subordinate groups in society, through a process of "intellectual and
moral leadership' seek to win the consent of dominant groups in society.
15. The process of "compromise equilibrium" happens when popular culture is a "resistance" of subordir
groups and the forces of "incorporation" in the interests of the dominant groups,