cultural impact
Lasting societal influence
Cultural impact is the effect something has on a society's values, behaviors, or way of life.
A film, invention, or movement may have cultural impact far beyond its original purpose: The iPhone's cultural impact extended well beyond telecommunications.
The phrase often appears in discussions of art, technology, and historical events that shape how people think or live.
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- identityWho someone is
- national identityShared sense of nationhood
- consumer behaviorPatterns in purchasing choices
- word of mouthInformation passed through conversation
memes · viral moment · social media · traditions · globalization · innovation · assimilation · film · zeitgeist · diaspora · melting pot · theater · counterculture · generation gap · colonialism · heritage sites · collective memory · legacy
- author's legacybody of work, collected works, influence, literary estate, literary influence
- Shakespeare studiesKing Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice
- Music Studiesmusic history, musicologists, music historians, ethnomusicologists
- TVcomedy series, drama series, talk shows, game shows, reality TV
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- children's literaturefairy tales, picture books, young adult, fables, fantasy
cultural impactinsignificance
Lack of consequence or weight
obscurity · inconsequentiality · inconsequence · triviality · marginality
cultural impactanonymity
Unknown identity state
invisibility · oblivion · forgotten · unnoticed · erasure