Assignment 1-2

What is popular culture, and what does it mean to you? Popular culture is the system of attitudes, behavior patterns, beliefs, customs, and tastes that define the people of any society. Popular culture to me is everything we have learn and how it change through the years. Cell phones have been around for years and the technology has been improving greatly. First we started with cell phone that we can just contact each other. Now they have cell phones that can text messages, upload games, Internet, and much much more. Popular culture is the changing of an item for one period to another.Why is an understanding of popular culture relevant to you in a business environment and in your present and future career? I feel that popular culture will help me in my business environment on how management should be set up and also how I should be as a manager. Taylor was a great theorist that I learned about in my last class that he had ideas on breaking down a problem and looking at the problem scientifically. This way you break down the problem and look at it in all areas. I feel that I can look at the past on how the managers use to do things and how them do them know and get different theories to use them in my careers and everyday life. Popular culture can also help me how to train my soldiers better from learning what happen in the past. There is a lot of changes in the military with equipment, uniforms, and patches.What would you consider to be an example of a pop culture artifact? And why would you choose it? I chose the IPHONE 3G because I have one right know and I like what they did with the new technology. I feel that this item is an example of pop culture artifact because of the changes of the cell phone through the years and also how popular this phone is today because it can do so much more than before examples: Internet, texting, maps, and much much more.