Mass Culture, we discussed the three main characteristics of the Culture Industry. The third characteristic is that "Popular Culture can keep oppositional cultures at bay by incorporating resistance before it can find traction". Explain what this means, and how it works, using an example from mass culture or pop culture to illustrate your point.

Generally, popular culture refers to the culture that has a larger appeal to a large population when compared to other cultures available.

Step-by-step explanation

Popular culture can keep barriers to oppositional cultures by creating resistance before they can find traction. This basically means that since the popular culture has a larger influence on the people compared to the other groups, it may end up promoting lifestyles and other ideologies that are meant to prevent the other marginalized cultures from challenging it. Since it has a large backup by the people, it may end up being more successful than the other cultures.

Taking an example from the mass culture, sports such as the football game is one of the most popular sports in the world. This means that it has the largest appeal to the people, and mostly they are able to control the other. For example, when two games are being aired at the same time, and there is only one TV, the football fans may force the other fans to watch their gamer since they are more powerful and influential.