popular culture

The state shall promote the economic, cultural, and social advancement of the population living in mountain and hill areas.

The Pljevlja Cultural Centre extends over a surface of more than 4,000 square metres; it is available to public institutions and the population for the organisation of educational, cultural and other events.

Such tendencies will have numerous unfavourable consequences on the further development of population but also in the economic, social and cultural area.

Nutritional habits are influenced by social, economic, ethnic and cultural factors along with a population` s level of education, availability and cost of food.

Respect of rights to healthy lifestyle, including healthy nutrition, and respect of nutritional and cultural - specific nutrition regimes of the population in the Republic of Slovenia.

The Parties shall endeavour by appropriate means, and in particular by educational and information programmes, to strengthen appreciation and respect for cultural property by their entire population.

The goal of the project is to improve the conditions for cultural activity in Nikšiæ which would facilitate social development of the municipality and have positive impacts on the education of the young population.

population and culture the objective is to respect, preserve and promote the cultural and social independence of the indigenous population and to guarantee the basis for their living standards, in particular environmentally sound settlement and economic development, and promote mutual understanding and cooperation between Alpine and extra Alpine populations;

e to promote measures to ensure that the bodies responsible for organising or supporting cultural activities have at their disposal staff who have a full command of the regional or minority language concerned, as well as of the language(s) of the rest of the population;

Pillar for assuring sustainable food supply - assurance of accession to hiqh-quality and health-beneficial food which takes into account cultural - specific ways of nourishment of the population and implements the development of sustainable agricultural and environmental - protective policies.

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(b) facilitate access, in particular by affected developing country Parties, on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed, taking into account the need to protect intellectual property rights, to technologies most suitable to practical application for specific needs of local populations, paying special attention to the social, cultural, economic and environmental impact of such technology;

Below are responses to two works of popular culture that prove this hypothesis.

A clearly polarised basic drama between good and evil takes place in the news just as in the classic melodramatic texts of popular culture.

In this essay I discuss the transformation of television journalism into popular culture, and the ideological effect of this transformation.

In this way the news becomes part of popular culture in general, and the newsreaders become part of the pantheon of national 'super-subjects'.

Television journalism is part of local popular culture and the news should be understood as representations, and not as 'the reflection of today's events', or presentation.

In short, various forms of popular culture are important for what they are and because of the ways people use them - they have implications for the ordinary lives of people.

But the central factor in the transformation of the news from a particular, realistic political discourse into a segment of local popular culture lies in the changed role of the newsreader.

The connection between politics and popular culture is evident through the transformation of aesthetic into ethical, in a moral judgement that is also an aesthetic judgement at the same time.

The same conclusion could be applied to the criticism of popular culture or analysis of the models of femininity in women's magazines, a category to which the study of Cosmopolitan presented in this paper also belongs.

Since politics cannot be discussed separately from popular culture, the change in format means not only formal or aesthetic modifications, but also a change that plays the central role in the constitution of the meaning of the news.

Obviously news can no longer be viewed as a distinct genre that 'transmits information', since tele-tabloid journalism mixes politics with popular culture, information with 'entertainment', melodrama with information, information with moralising, investigation with chat.

In this way the news - at the beginning of the nineties still formally strictly separated from the 'entertainment' part of the programme - is becoming a part of popular culture, and newspresenters are becoming national 'super-subjects' and important topics of other media.

Whatever the case, the clarity of the situation is obscured by one key question - how and why do women subject themselves, apparently of their own free will, to all those methods of cultivating the body advertised in women's magazines and some other areas of popular culture?

These products of popular culture frame our representations of the world and co-shape them, in this particular case, our understanding of the role and image of woman, gender relations, products that a woman 'must' possess if she wants to be desired, loved and happy. Altogether this amounts to the opening of the door to consumer culture and establishing the basis for a common-sense perception of ordinary life.

At any rate we should not be deluded into thinking that the men who sit on the management boards of the companies that publish such 'products' of popular culture are omniscient and fully aware of the nature and effects of their creations, or know where mystification ends and the truth begins.

Since the creation of personality is the basis for the construction of reality (and control) in the news, we shall consider whether the creation of a personality from a newsreader also takes place outside television, and we will thus need to read television in the context of national popular culture in general.

The television newspresenters circulate between fashion competitions, openings and parties (The Slovene Woman of the Year Contest, On the Sunny Side of the Alps, Fashion Jana Selects the Best-dressed Man in Slovenia; Fashion Thoughts of the Best-dressed Men and Women in Slovenia, etc.), and mix with celebrities from other spheres of the local popular culture.

The basic conclusion of our study, which proves the presence of discursive mechanisms that consistently obscure the boundary between advertisements and editorial content, is that women's magazines represent an attractive format for the promotion of commercialized popular culture which is based on 'the cycle of publishing profit, advertising and women's role as the primary purchasers of consumer goods.'

Today - when newspresenters appear on hoarding posters; when they are turning into commercial objects, trademarks, and local celebrities; when they live their secondary lives in the social chronicles of tabloids; when they compete for best-dressed local celebrity; when they expose minor secrets about the private lives of the local showbiz in their articles; and when the news has finally become part of local popular culture - this is more true than ever.

The state shall promote the economic, cultural and social advancement of the population living in mountain and hill areas.

the primarily cultural platform that brought together the homosexual population was soon translated, owing to stigmatization, into a political platform.

By way of exception for those populations marked by an asterisk, hunting may continue on a sustainable use basis where hunting of such populations is a long-established cultural practice (see paragraph 2.1.1 of Annex 3 to the Agreement).

The heritage of this cultural support may be discerned in the proliferation of specialized, popular-scientific and instructive publications for parents and mothers.

3 The Roma have a different culture, mentality and behavior which are not in accordance with the norms of the majority population - they are a threat to our cultural order.

The Roma differ from the majority population by their looks (skin color), they have a different culture, values and habits, they are unadaptable and their natality is too high

3. The Roma have a different culture, mentality and behavior which are not in accordance with the norms of the majority population, hence this poses a threat to our cultural order.

Although social scientists treat femininity and masculinity as culturally variable categories, social roles within the popular gender schema applied in everyday life are still understood as closely connected with biological sex.

Using special techniques, like stereotypes and generalization, the media concentrate on particular "negative traits" of the Roma, for example cultural differences, deviation and the apparent threat they pose to the majority population.

Thus, the popular news is not political only because it favours certain views more than others, and certain spheres of reality more than others, but also because it constructs some cultural constellations as natural while placing others outside the common-sense.

With regard to the former, the European Court of Justice ruled that the State, in establishing and maintaining such a system, is not seeking to engage in gainful activity but is fulfilling its duty towards its own population in the social, cultural and educational fields(12).

The 1990s also brought the commercialization of homosexuality. Gays' and lesbians' entry into the mainstream (the latter through lesbian chic) obscured the borders, so popular mainstream culture (music, fashion, movies) has become in a way more gay than the gay community itself.

Naturally, such comparisons gave rise to the conclusion that the media portrayed women unrealistically, both in terms of proportional representation (women account for 51% of the total population) and with regard to their actual contributions to various spheres of social and cultural life.

the concept of nationality shall not be confined to citizenship or lack thereof but shall in particular include membership of a group determined by its cultural, ethnic, or linguistic identity, common geographical or political origins or its relationship with the population of another State;

The refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina were reportedly 'causing more and more disturbances', they 'disrupted the habits of local population', 'increased tensions between nations', were 'potential criminal offenders', not to mention the fact that their health was 'already seriously undermined' so we could not rule out the 'outbreak of smaller-scale epidemics', and that their 'civilizational and cultural level and behavioral patterns were different'.

The Magnus section of the Škuc Forumwas constituted, along with the gay scene, as a part of the then alternative culture and new social movements, which was a course of events not typical of global gay and lesbian movements. As Nataša Velikonja (1999) observed, the usual course of events in western metropolises was first the concentration of the gay and lesbian population followed by the formation of a critical mass and finally by political, social and cultural upgrading.

When the news represents an event in terms of a clearly polarised drama about the struggle between good and evil, when it offers a moral judgement on the world, when the aesthetic visualisation of the television news can create a sense of familiarity and trust between the newsreader and the audience in their living rooms, and when the news is read in an intimate and chatting manner by a man/woman who can be trusted, since he/she investigates, seeks out and exposes the truth on our behalf, the news plays the same role as other pseudo-therapeutic discourses within popular media culture.