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Essay / The Importance of Popular Culture - 1388
Popular culture is visible in everything, but I will show how I think this should be studied more critically by looking specifically at popular culture itself, hegemony , as well as the Bechdel test. Popular culture has become an important part of our society, in the way everything is shown as well as the way things are seen. Popular culture is roughly what our society considers popular and how it affects our lives. “Pop Culture: An Overview” by Tim Delaney is an article that helps define what pop culture really is. It has been said that popular culture comes from the way we dress, speak and eat, all ways of showing what popular culture is. Popular culture is also widely disseminated in society through the media. I have to say that this is a good example of why it should be studied more, because it is what shapes our society. People consider things that are shown in the media to be important and shape the way they act. Therefore, if this is what can be considered as what shapes our societies, one might think that it deserves to be widely studied and deepened. Teenagers and young children watch people in the media to see what