2. • What is the culture?
What is the popular culture basically?
The history and the rise of popular culture
Differences popular culture and high culture
Comparison between popular culture and high culture
Examples of high culture and popular culture
4. Popular Culture
• Do you like the popular
culture?
• The term popular culture
• Poor education and lower
classes
• Opposite of high culture
• Origin: Victorian era, Britain
in the 18th and
• 19th centuries
• An increase in literacy rates
• Reading
• Penny serials
• After world war II
• Mass culture
5. The rise of popular culture
• The origins of the rise of
popular culture
• The Creation of middle class
• Working classes
• To the Urban environments
far from their traditional
farming life
• Their own culture
• As a part of separating from
their parent and bosses
• Innovations in mass media
6. Comparison between high culture and
popular culture
High Culture
• The upper class has the access
to high culture
• High culture is now decreasing
with the spread of popular
culture
Popular Culture
• The majority of people has the
access to popular culture
• The popular culture is embraced
by the mass society; hence its
popularity is ever increasing.
