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1. Why is considered an empty conceptual category or defined in multiple conflicting ways by different people across different contexts, such as mass culture, folk culture, and working-class culture with the high culture, through various theoretical perspectives?

2. Why is heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources, notably religious and countercultural groups?

3. Why is views it as trivial and dumbed down to find consensual acceptance from the mainstream?

4. How is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to the mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century?

5. How does mass media influence the collection of ideas that permeate people's everyday lives in a given society?

6. How does the culture of the people consist of the cultural elements that persist at least numerically in any given society, mainly using the more popular media in that society's vernacular language and an established lingua franca?