What is Pop Culture? Assignment 1.2 Week 1

Pop culture is what is what is popular amongst people in a culture, it encompasses the most immediate and contemporary elements in our lives- elements that are often subject to rapid changes in a highly technological world in which people and brought closer and closer by the mass media, it often offers a common ground as the most visible and pervasive level of culture in a given society.

What pop culture means to me is the most notorious television shows, the lives of celebrities, movies, culture of Hollywood. The way it all interacts with our lives and how we are influenced by it.

An understanding of popular culture can be relevant to a business environment and in my present and future career mainly because it is consumer market based. Popular culture is relative to how consumers react to the movies, television, etc. If they react poorly you wont market it to the consumers, if the consumer however react well then you can market it and make a profit. In my career of logistics and operational supply chain management, I need to be able to break down the steps of how products get made and sold. Being able to accurately market and get the merchandise to the consumers will also be apart of the logistics of any given company.



I picked the reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo as my popular artifact this week because that show has gone from being ostracized to being apart of everyday cultural life, talked about on the radio, television and in magazines. The little girl Alana has become a public figure for little girls who want to be cute, funny and a toddler in tiaras. This show will hopefully be on for awhile to see how this little girl goes from down home southern princess to a grown woman modeling in pageants still.