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Choosing a focus study
When you are preparing to select a focus study for Popular Culture it is important to make sure that it meets the distinguishing criteria the syllabus lays down. In the syllabus glossary, popular culture is defined as:
A shared set of practices and beliefs that have attained global acceptance and which can be normally characterised by: being associated with commercial products; developing from local to national to global acceptance; allowing consumers to have widespread access and are constantly changing and evolving. (p 61)
You must be able to apply this definition to your proposed focus study, if you can’t, it probably isn’t widely accepted as a popular culture, and you will have trouble answering examinations questions.
Examples of focus studies are:
Each of the focus studies must have a
future component.
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