What is popular culture, and what does it mean to me?
Popular culture to me is anything that is well known and well liked. Popular culture is everywhere in the world today. Technology has helped to advance popular culture by giving convenience of access to everyone. With easy access through technology, new fads and information are easily passes around the world. But most importantly, culture adds so much to our world and our lives giving us entertainment and interesting things to do.
Why is an understanding of popular culture relevant to you in a business environment and in your present and future career?
I work in a hospital as a manager. I am not sure how much popular culture is relevant to my actual job, but maybe someone can post some examples to my blog. One thing I do know is that we all spend a lot of time at our jobs, which means that our co-workers are who we spend a majority of time with. Following news, media, and popular culture helps give interesting and fulfilling conversations, like things we talk about around the water cooler. These conversations bring about a mental and verbal connection between people.
What would you consider to be an example of a pop culture artifact? And why would you choose it?
When I read our pop culture blog assignment and that we needed to choose a pop culture artifact what came to mind was a popular culture from the 80’s. My artifact is “The Brat Pack”. I chose them because they are from my generation and I grew up watching their movies. These actors and actresses rose to stardom quickly and were some of the most popular and idolized people during that time. In researching this artifact, some of the more popular actors and actresses labeled as The Brat Pack were Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, James Spader, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore and Robert Downey, Jr.
Being flung into the spotlight with fame and fortune they were the cool kids that everyone knew. “The Brat Pack represented the dreams and dilemmas of young adults in the Eighties – how to reconcile youthful idealism with a desire to realize their share of the American Dream in a decade when conformity and materialism were once again in vogue” (Manning, 2000).
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