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What is popular culture? What is popular culture? It is very difficult to define this word, isn't it? Many 'people' have spent plenty of time to give definition of this word. In order to define popular culture we first need to define the term 'culture '. "According to Raymond Williams, culture is 'one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language'. Williams suggests three main categories in the definition of culture. First of all, the 'ideal', in which culture is a general process in human perfection, intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development. We could use as an example, great philosophers, artists and poets (referring only to intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic factors in Western Europe). A second use of the word 'culture', the 'documentary', can be referring to particular way of life of people, a period, or a group. These are referred to, as cultural practices or lived cultures,...

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