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'''Popular culture''' (also called '''mass culture''' or '''pop culture''') is generally recognized by members of a [[wikipedia:society|society]] as a set of the [[wikipedia:cultural practice|practices]], [[wikipedia:beliefs|beliefs]], and [[wikipedia:cultural objects|objects]] that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. The primary driving force behind popular culture is mass appeal, and it is produced by what cultural analyst [[wikipedia:Theodor Adorno|Theodor Adorno]] refers to as the "[[wikipedia:culture industry|culture industry]]".<ref>{{cite book|author=Lane Crothers|title=Globalization and American Popular Culture|publisher=[[wikipedia:Rowman & Littlefield|Rowman & Littlefield]]|year=2021|page=48|isbn=9781538142691|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-gUPEAAAQBAJ&q=%22popular+culture%22+%22culture+industry%22&pg=PA48}}</ref> Heavily influenced in [[wikipedia:modern history|modern times]] by [[wikipedia:mass media|mass media]], this collection of ideas permeates the [[wikipedia:everyday life|everyday lives]] of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's [[wikipedia:attitude (psychology)|attitudes]] towards certain topics.<ref>McGaha, Julie. "Popular Culture & Globalization". ''Multicultural Education'' 23.1 (2015): 32–37. ''SocINDEX with Full Text''. Web. 5 Aug. 2016.</ref> However, there are various ways to define pop culture.<ref>Strinati, D. (2004). ''An introduction to theories of popular culture''. Routledge.</ref> Because of this, popular culture is something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across different contexts.<ref>Storey, J. (2018). ''Cultural theory and popular culture: An introduction''. Routledge.</ref> It is generally viewed in contrast to other forms of [[wikipedia:culture|culture]] such as folk cults, [[wikipedia:working-class culture|working-class culture]], or [[wikipedia:high culture|high culture]], and also through different high praised perspectives such as [[wikipedia:psychoanalysis|psychoanalysis]], [[wikipedia:structuralism|structuralism]], [[wikipedia:Postmodern philosophy|postmodernism]], and more. The most common pop-culture categories are: [[wikipedia:entertainment|entertainment]] (such as [[wikipedia:film|film]], [[wikipedia:music|music]], [[wikipedia:television|television]] and [[wikipedia:video games|video games]]), [[wikipedia:sport|sport]]s, [[wikipedia:news|news]] (as in [[wikipedia:cultural icon|people]]/[[wikipedia:cultural heritage tourism|places]] in the news), [[wikipedia:politics|politics]], [[wikipedia:fashion|fashion]], [[wikipedia:technology|technology]], and [[wikipedia:slang|slang]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://mrpopculture.com/what-is-pop-culture |title= What Is Pop Culture? By Gary West |access-date= 2015-03-17 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160829224233/http://www.mrpopculture.com/what-is-pop-culture |archive-date= 2016-08-29 |url-status= dead }}</ref>