mass culture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmassandculture
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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk/mæs/us/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofmassandculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As with current populations, samples derived from the same locality at the same time were mixed to make up amassculture.
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Amasscultureis a proportional mixture of isofemale lines.
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The history ofmasscultureis crucial to understanding the construction of literature as a category.
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They also gave more or less ironic renderings of classics from officialmassculture.
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Modernist self-reflexivity was as much a part ofmasscultureas it was of the so-called fine arts from the turn of the century onwards.
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In this experimental system, mutagenesis was followed by eight generations of growth in amassculture when mutations with large heterozygous effects would be out-competed.
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Again amassculturewas established by pooling more than 30 isofemale lines.
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These nuances challenge a simple opposition of musical autonomy to complicity withmassculture.
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Moreover, as a genre ofmassculture, sensation fiction is overdetermined.
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However, this literature fails to explicitly theorise ideology in the realm ofmassculture.
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All the above-described experiments were done with amasscultureestablished in 1985.
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Its modernity was above all a fashion, its function was popular; it was, in other words, a feature ofmassculture.
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She tries, in other words to suggest that culture should be inclusive ofmassculture.
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For critics ofmassculture, mass psychology's aesthetic consequences were paramount.
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The emergingmasscultureproved to be marginal in the socialisation of these groups, whose music and songs were traditional.
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One problem here is the assumption that these forms of sociability were dominant in the city before the 'arrival' ofmassculture.
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Also, the function of consumption is limited to escapism in a manner reminiscent of earlier 'massculture' criticism.
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