{"id":100,"date":"2019-09-06T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:19:17","slug":"the-influence-of-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/09\/06\/the-influence-of-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influence of Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article, \u201cLeadership, Culture, and Social Change,\u201d defines the terms \u201cculture,\u201d \u201cpopular,\u201d and \u201cpopular culture\u201d respectively. These explanations hold significance as the article uses this terminology to explain the significance of the phrase \u201cpopular culture\u201d with respect to societal conflicts and social change. Rather than simply categorizing popular culture as \u201cvulgar entertainment,\u201d the article encourages individuals to recognize its value to society as a whole. Popular culture has the ability to prompt introspection. Moreover, popular culture calls attention to present societal and political issues. The article describes the positive correlation between a work of popular culture\u2019s audience size and influence: the larger the audience, the larger the possible impact. Using <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> as an example, the article reiterates the negative consequences of writing off popular culture as entertainment; <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> illustrates the atrocities of slavery and serves as a call to action. The article concludes by revealing \u201ca profound disconnect between what influences us the most and what we identify as influential\u201d (Bezio, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>The quotation above directly relates to a discussion I had in my Theories and Models class last Thursday. Dr. Goethals described a social science experiment that he conducted regarding attitude change and memory. The study found that individuals\u2019 perspectives on a particular social justice issue were altered by their peers. As a result, individuals with changed standpoints were unable to correctly recall their previous opinion on the matter. These findings parallel the aforementioned disconnect as individuals in the study were unable to recognize the influence that their peers had on their perspective. This evident disconnect reveals that individuals in our society must begin to recognize what impacts us the most; specifically, starting to recognize popular culture and our peers as influencing agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article, \u201cLeadership, Culture, and Social Change,\u201d defines the terms \u201cculture,\u201d \u201cpopular,\u201d and \u201cpopular culture\u201d respectively. These explanations hold significance as the article uses this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/2019\/09\/06\/the-influence-of-popular-culture\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Influence of Popular Culture<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst390cnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}