Popular Culture

Introduction

Popular culture refers to forms of entertainment that are mass produced and widely consumed. As such, it is a contemporary phenomenon enabled by industrialization, urbanization, and mass communication technologies. Popular culture is commonly contrasted against traditional folk culture and high culture and is usually considered to include popular music (Fiske, 7-12), television, cinema, literature, magazines, and so forth. In terms of organization studies, popular culture is of interest because it contains many representations of work and organizations. For this reason, people who study organizations have been concerned with the way that work, management, and organizations are portrayed in popular culture. ...