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Culture

The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.

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melodrama

Culture; Popular culture

A form of dramatic production which exaggerates emotions, particularly those concerned with romance. The dominant mode of most popular fiction, including Hollywood's.

merchandising

Culture; Popular culture

The particular selling techniques brought to bear in advertising and marketing a product.

mersey beat

Culture; Popular culture

Musical style combining elements of folk music and rock 'n' roll; it originated in the late 1950s in the northern English port of Liverpool and its most famous exponents were the ...

modernism

Culture; Popular culture

A movement across art-forms beginning in the late 19th century, which rejected traditional assumptions of order and value in favor of doubt, relativism, and a self-conscious ...

monopoly

Culture; Popular culture

The exclusive control or possession of something;the effective domination of a market or trade.

myth

Culture; Popular culture

A story that a culture tells to account for a contradiction at the centre of its existence; the Western myth, for instance, tells the story of the bringing of "civilization" to ...

narcissism

Culture; Popular culture

The excessive (and often anxious) concern with self, to the exclusion of the social; believed by many to be a particular malady of Western society ("the Me generation") in the ...