Culture can be present in any group, large or small. No special skills are required to form a culture, all that is needed are the thoughts and ideas of the members of the social group. These provide meaning to people within the culture and provide something to study for those outside the culture who wish to understand it better. Karl Marx also influenced my understanding of culture. He wrote about the hierarchy of a society, and it is this hierarchy that leads us to popular culture. Marx and his “division of labor” (Marx, 1845) were fundamental to the formation of the upper and lower classes, and the culture of these lower classes contributed to building a popular culture. Without the division of society into different classes, we would be left with a single class and, therefore, with a single culture. Dividing a society into classes of power or intellect is a necessity for the long-term order and vitality of a social group. In my opinion, popular culture is the combination of different beliefs in a single social group in order to form a general culture for the group as a whole. The opinions of those in the lower classes are valued just as much as those of the upper classes. In other words, popular culture should include contributions from everyone, not just the social and academic world