Sociology A-Level
Popular culture
What Popular culture means in Sociology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Popular culture
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Widely enjoyed, accessible cultural forms, a more neutral term than mass culture.
Topics that use Popular culture
- Culture and Identity (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Folk culture
- Mass culture
- Socialisation and Identity Formation
- Structuralism versus Interactionism
- High culture
- Power and Inequality
- The Social Construction of Reality
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