Value Agreement and Functional Interaction between Popular Culture and Mainstream Culture

On the value agreement and functional interaction between popular culture and mainstream culture

The purpose of cultural construction is to realize people's free and all-round development. Cultural construction should deal with the relationship between centralization and diversification. The interactive development of popular culture and mainstream culture is an important path of cultural construction in China. Therefore, we need to make full use of the characteristics of consistent value goals and complementary functions of popular culture and mainstream culture to realize the integrated development of culture.

Paper Keywords: popular culture; Mainstream culture; Value fit; Functional interaction

First, the dialectical relationship between popular culture and mainstream culture

(A) the free and all-round development of human beings: the fundamental purpose of cultural construction

Cultural construction and people's all-round development are complementary and inseparable. Because cultural construction is the premise and condition to realize people's all-round development. Furthermore, to realize people's all-round development is to liberate people from the old shackles and old brand of the times, awaken and form people's awareness of cultural innovation, cultivate people's personality and mental ability, and promote people's all-round free development from "rich individuals". Cultural construction is not only the premise and basic guarantee of people's all-round development, but also the only way and inevitable result to realize people's all-round development. Its most important and ultimate goal is to realize the free and all-round development of human beings. To realize people's all-round and free development, we need a variety of cultural nutrition, not monotonous cultural sources.

(B) Cultural diversity and integration: the basic characteristics of cultural construction

Cultural construction has the basic characteristics of leading ideology, diversity of ideological sources and diversity of cultural forms. Therefore, it is the basic feature and important direction of cultural construction to handle the relationship between centralization and pluralism and realize the diversified integration of culture.

Facing the reality that the current society and its cultural structure are more and more open, the forms are more and more diversified, the contents are more and more diversified, and the functions are more and more comprehensive, it is impossible for a single mainstream culture to stand out, and it is impossible for the mainstream culture to play its greatest role completely and authoritatively. It must be based on a broad social culture and compete with non-mainstream cultures with diverse subjects, forms and different influences. Modern society should be a truly multicultural society, where mainstream culture, elite culture, popular culture and folk culture develop together.

(C) Two-way interaction between mainstream culture and popular culture: an important path of cultural construction

1, mainstream culture

Mainstream culture is a culture that dominates a society or can establish a value orientation for society, and can integrate and lead other cultures. It is a culture that has been advocated and played an important role in a society and an era, and it is an important part of mainstream ideology.

China is now in the process of socialist construction. Specifically, China's mainstream culture is socialist culture, which mainly contains advanced socialist culture as the essence, including the part of excellent traditional culture that keeps pace with the times and embodies the connotation of the times, the reasonable and scientific part of western foreign culture, and the beneficial and advanced culture in popular culture.

2. Popular culture

Popular culture in a broad sense refers to the beliefs, behaviors and things widely shared by different classes in a certain period, a certain rhythm, a certain period, a certain region and even the world. In a narrow sense, pop culture refers to fashion, pop cultural works, pop music and other pop arts. In essence, mass culture is a kind of cultural form widely used at the social mass level.

The contemporary mass culture in China, which we are concerned about today, refers to a new cultural form, which is produced in the process of modernization in China, conforms to the development of socialist market economy, is dominated by market rules, is dominated by urban people, is characterized by fashion and popularity, takes entertainment as its basic function, is produced and operated by modern production methods, and is widely spread through mass media.

Second, the value of popular culture and mainstream culture fit together.

(A) the purpose of building a strong cultural country needs the two to fit in the value goal.

As a culture that expresses the orthodox ideology of the country, mainstream culture must aim at building a strong cultural country, promoting the construction of advanced culture and realizing the free and all-round development of people. As a cultural subsystem in the social and cultural system, popular culture is a form of subculture, also known as subculture. Generally speaking, subculture and mainstream culture are a kind of auxiliary and consultative relationship, which embodies the diversity of social culture. In a sense, the more developed the subculture system of a society, the more open it means. This development is based on a highly open and confident social and cultural mentality and is an important cultural indicator to measure the civilization and openness of a society.

In a word, mainstream culture focuses on internal cultivation, while mass culture focuses on external image. Both aim to build China into a cultural power and enhance its cultural soft power.

(2) The harmonious construction of cultural pattern needs the coordination of the two in value orientation.

To build a multicultural pattern, we should not only adhere to the dominant position of mainstream culture, but also respect the diversity, coexistence, difference and complementarity of culture. Through the selection, absorption and innovation of rich mass cultural resources, we can form a cultural system with the characteristics of the times and innovative development.

As far as social value is concerned, popular culture always tries to move from the edge of culture to the center of social mainstream culture, to the future of culture, and to undertake the heavy responsibility of promoting cultural development to prove the significance of its social value. Mainstream culture always looks for the "gap" of culture with a brand-new attitude in the changes of the times, regards popular culture as its "counterpart" and adjusts its direction.

(3) The particularity of adolescent development requires the interaction between them in value function.

It can be said that popular culture is the power of thought and mainstream culture is the power of morality. The formation and gradual prosperity of popular culture is directly related to the special internal needs of teenagers themselves. At present, the trend of contemporary college students' democratic participation consciousness from perceptual identification to rational pursuit is becoming increasingly obvious. Popular culture embodies the spirit of the times, keeps pace with the times, publicizes individuality, is full of vitality, advocates scientific and technological innovation, is the power of thought, and helps young people realize their self-worth.

But at the same time, we should also see that due to the immature development of teenagers themselves, the correct guidance and education of society is a necessary external force. The education of mainstream culture can make their value choices absorb the reasonable components of popular culture in a differentiated way, enrich themselves, satisfy themselves, develop themselves, improve themselves, and form a positive attitude towards life and a sound personality on the premise of adhering to mainstream culture and leading values.

Third, the functional interaction between popular culture and mainstream culture.

(A) the mainstream culture as the guide to ensure the correct value orientation of popular culture.

1. Actively build a core value system and clarify the development direction of popular culture.

The socialist core value system is the soul of rejuvenating the country and the essence of advanced socialist culture, which determines the development direction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. Adhere to the socialist core value system to lead the social ideological trend, and form a unified guiding ideology, common ideals and beliefs, strong spiritual strength and basic moral norms in the whole party and society. For the country, when developing mass culture, we should always pay attention to the guiding role of culture, carry forward the mainstream culture, build a socialist core value system, and let the mainstream culture be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

2. Fill popular cultural phenomena with mainstream cultural elements to enhance the taste of popular culture.

Popular culture has many forms of expression, which are embodied in rich and colorful cultural phenomena, such as network culture, idol culture and game culture. However, the diversity of pop culture forms also makes the taste of pop culture show the difference between elegance and vulgarity. Carrying the phenomenon of popular culture with the elements of mainstream culture not only enhances the taste of popular culture, but also makes mainstream culture spread more widely.