Impact of Mass media and Pop Culture to the Society

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Popular culture is characterised as a whole of the creeds, beliefs, thoughts, perspectives, images and other aspects of a particular culture. Pop culture is composed of genres like the movies, tracks, novels, popular people, fashion or cartoons, among others. These elements target all people regardless of age and gender and influence their thinking, trends, behaviour and tastes. Today, the media play a major role in making pop culture known to people via ads (Fiske, 2010). Nearly everyone is exposed to the media and is passionate about all facets of the lives of celebrities. There has been much discussion of whether art has any effect on life. While many argue that art is the representation of human existence and nature, many others argue that artistic representation tends to lead to trends that influence the mind of young people. Certainly, if popular culture is considered, “art” has influenced societyADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Delaney”,”given”:”Tim”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Philosophy Now”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2007″,”1″,”1″]]},”page”:”6-7″,”title”:”Pop Culture: An Overview”,”type”:”article-journal”,”volume”:”64″},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=76f6eb10-ed5a-3656-94a8-f98604c2805c”]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Delaney)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Delaney)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Delaney)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Delaney).

The behaviours and trends of famous persons therefore influence how society acts or perceives itself. Most people in society, particularly women and teenagers, look to emulate the way famous people live, since they appear in the modern world as iconic figures. For instance, numerous young women in the 21st century are looking to Beyonce, one of the world’s most powerful and influential women. They consider Beyonce as the face of the woman of the 21st century and the finest cultural meaner of today’s feminism. This paper therefore discusses the impact on society today of popular culture. The corporeal part highlights the effects that pop culture has on women and adolescent girls in society. The results will be both positive and negative.

Not just the number of people with eating problems is the fault of pop culture, but the high crime rates and drug rates also affect society. One could argue that there was ever an increase in drugs and violence because pop culture greatly influences the crime rate and the rate of drug use in music, video games and Hollywood films.. The use of famous individuals who commit crimes and consider themselves to be highly responsible in music leads others to do the same because they see it as a way to accept society. These three narrow us down, making us more likely, if not to commit violence, tolerate acts of violence.

Pop culture also has brought women into society’s realisation of their value. Others praise and show the value of women, apart from genres which show women as objects or lesser beings. Some women like Naomi Wolf have criticised their beauty judgement on women. She says women must be accepted in their own way. She commends that colourful women such as Beyoncé and Rihanna gain advertising across all media platforms. Prominent people such as Queen Latifah demonstrated the value of women by introducing clothing lines for women of more size. Due to their body shapes, the plus-size group is considered unattractive for so long that they have not been fully taken up by society. However, some of these beliefs were dismissed through pop culture, and most women have today become part of society.

In addition, pop culture has destroyed society, changing the ordinary way to provoke sexuality. That is to say, the culture led to the exhibition in fashion magazines, websites and ads of various famous people. Many young women and adults idolize for these celebrities that emulate their behaviour because they think this is the right way since everyone is doing it, author describes from book ‘Beauty Myth’ ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“abstract”:”In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites — it turns them off the real thing.”,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Wolf”,”given”:”Naomi”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”New York Magazine”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2009″]]},”page”:”1-4″,”title”:”The Porn Myth”,”type”:”article-journal”},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=c806ba5d-fa46-33c2-a6de-dbe976888cb2″]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Wolf)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Wolf)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Wolf)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Wolf), The famous Calvin Klein ad campaigns erotic at the age of seventeen, and erotic models at the age of 14 in the early 1990s. ‘ This illustrates how much popular culture influenced women and young girls to dress others in terms of dressing which have increased In addition, pop culture also resulted in women being objectified. Sex sells and many men in today’s society get sexually attracted to what they see on media ADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1057/9780230615595_7″,”abstract”:”The phenomenon of apparently greater emphasis on human female physical attractiveness has spawned an array of explanatory responses, but the great majority can be broadly categorized as either evolutionary or social constructivist in nature. Both perspectives generate distinct and testable predictions. If, as Naomi Wolf (The beauty myth: How images of female beauty are used against women. New York: William Morrow, originally published in 1991, 2002) and others have argued, greater emphasis on female attractiveness is part of a predominantly Western beauty myth, then an analysis of a culturally diverse sample should reveal marked fluctuation in gendered attractiveness emphasis: there should be significant numbers of cultures in which male and female attractiveness are equally emphasized, and cultures in which male attractiveness receives more emphasis. On the other hand, an evolutionary perspective suggests that disproportionate emphasis on female attractiveness will be a universal or near-universal phenomenon. To test these hypotheses, we tallied references to male versus female attractiveness in 90 collections of traditional folktales from 13 diverse cultural areas. The results are consistent with the evolutionary predictions and inconsistent with the constructivist predictions. Across culture areas information on physical attractiveness was much more likely to be conveyed for female characters. Together with other recent studies, these results suggest that the main elements of the beauty myth are not myths: there are large areas of overlap in the attractiveness judgments of diverse populations, and cross-cultural emphasis on physical attractiveness appears to fall principally upon women.”,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Gottschall”,”given”:”Jonathan”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””},{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Gottschall”,”given”:”Jonathan”,”non-dropping-particle”:””,”parse-names”:false,”suffix”:””}],”container-title”:”Literature, Science, and a New Humanities”,”id”:”ITEM-1″,”issued”:{“date-parts”:[[“2008″]]},”page”:”127-155″,”publisher”:”Palgrave Macmillan US”,”title”:”The “Beauty Myth” is no Myth”,”type”:”chapter”},”uris”:[“http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=65842444-93ff-3352-bce5-cc324c4e8d67″]}],”mendeley”:{“formattedCitation”:”(Gottschall and Gottschall)”,”plainTextFormattedCitation”:”(Gottschall and Gottschall)”,”previouslyFormattedCitation”:”(Gottschall and Gottschall)”},”properties”:{“noteIndex”:0},”schema”:”https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json”}(Gottschall and Gottschall).

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ADDIN Mendeley Bibliography CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Delaney, Tim. “Pop Culture: An Overview.” Philosophy Now, vol. 64, Jan. 2007, pp. 6–7, https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=philnow&id=philnow_2007_0064_0000_0006_0007.

Gottschall, Jonathan, and Jonathan Gottschall. “The ‘Beauty Myth’ Is No Myth.” Literature, Science, and a New Humanities, Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008, pp. 127–55, doi:10.1057/9780230615595_7.

Wolf, Naomi. “The Porn Myth.” New York Magazine, 2009, pp. 1–4.