 Popular culture. Popular culture also called pop culture is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects. Heavily influenced in modern times by math media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of people in a given society. Therefore, popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics. However, there are various ways to define pop culture. Because of this, popular culture is considered an empty conceptual category, or something that can be defined in a variety of conflicting ways by different people across different contexts. It is generally defined in contrast to other forms of culture such as folk culture, working class culture, or high culture, and also through different theoretical perspectives such as psychoanalysis, structuralism, postmodernism, and more. The most common pop culture categories are, entertainment such as movies, music, television and video games, sports, news as in people slash places in the news politics, fashion slash clothes, technology, and slang. Popular culture is sometimes viewed by many people as being trivial and dumbed down in order to find consensual acceptance from or to attract attention amongst the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources most notably from religious groups and from counter-cultural groups which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, or corrupt.