1. Browse through the online encyclopedia provided for you entitled, Pop Culture Universe. Click on this link and then select Pop Culture Universe under “P” for an online encyclopedia that takes you through various decades of popular culture influences such as consumer products, music, television, fashion, and icons that defined different decades in American culture. This will familiarize you with the decade that houses your topic. You should become familiar with some of the social and political influences of the decade as these often contribute to how pop culture is both created and received by a mass audience.
2. Research your topic for material to present in a PowerPoint presentation.
3. In your presentation, you should analyze the pop culture topic using the sociological imagination. You should use information from any chapter(s) that correspond to your topic and you understand the sociological imagination. analyze your topic in Context. Using the sociological lens address how a sociologist would explain the birth and rise in popularity of your chosen form of culture. Examine the social/political environment, the current events, societal structure, of the time.
3. In addition to the sociological imagination, you will choose, describe, and apply two concepts from the course that correspond to your topic.
4. Create a PowerPoint presentation of 6-8 slides that shares the information you learned about your pop culture topics :
The decade in which this pop culture is housed and a few things that defined this decade (social/political events)
What it is and how it began
Who was the most influenced by this form of pop culture and why.
Just how popular did this phenomenon become?
Is there a form of this pop culture that exists today but may have advanced or changed in shape or form? (example, vinyl records can now be associated with CDs of today).
Visual examples of this pop culture (you may include video clips and pictures).
