Brief Introduction: My name is Keishawn Smith, and I enjoy basketball, playing guitar, listening to music, video games, and a big star wars fan (safe assumption to make when you look at the class I am in) I am from Chesapeake, Virginia which is a similar area to Farmville, just a bit more urban.
A Reflection on Effects of Society and Pop Culture
In what ways do you think society has affected your perspective and your lifestyle? Pop Culture and Society have always had an interesting relationship with each other. A good way to understand the relationship between the two would be the reflection theory. The reflection theory is a sociological approach to literature and other forms of cultural objects. It is often represented with a diamond where creators produce what they think we (the consumers/receivers) want, receivers consume the products and cultural objects that affect the social world we live in. For instance, the societal focus on the only ideal female image being the Victoria Secret models you see on TV and reality TV stars like Kim Kardashian being praised creates a standard practically unreachable for the average person to meet. Failure to meet this standard causes a lot of women to suffer from low self-confidence and feel insecure about themselves and their bodies. In this example,the society and culture that has that such a large focus on ridiculous bodies and appearances affects the people involved as well as invested in pop culture. Another instance would be the prevalence of superheroes in modern media and the reception of the concept in pop culture. A few years ago, being a big Batman or Ironfist fan would result in being a called a nerd, or in more drastic cases, being alienated from a friend group or social cliche. Compare that to now where almost everyone is very open about any interest in superheroes and Marvel and DC movies are huge successes all around (except for maybe Justice League). People on sports teams that would have had a scaled down experience of the Glee members from the show and how they were treated on the show are now very open about it with teammates. NFL stars have even made references to Dragon Ball characters as touchdown dances. All of these examples show how the reflection theory fits in to the general flow of society by the pushing and backing of what creators think consumers want as well as how cultural objects play a large part in shaping pop culture.
God Bless ~Keishawn
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