Popular forms of entertainment varied by social class.

Popular practices include wearing masks and costumes, overturning social conventions, dancing, sports competitions, parades, etc.

In the Italian Popular Party founded by Don Luigi Sturzo in 1919, Savonarola was revered as a champion of social justice, and after 1945 he was held up as a model of reformed Catholicism by leaders of the Christian Democratic Party.

Critics of libéralisme argue that governmental intervention is necessary for the welfare of workers ; they point out that great gains in workers ' rights were historically achieved by government intervention and social mobilization, as during the Popular Front.

Of all the French governments of the interwar era, only the Popular Front government of Léon Blum was presented sympathetically by Taylor, which he praised for carrying out what he regarded as long overdue social reforms.

Gustave Le Bon was a French social psychologist whose seminal study, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind ( 1896 ) led to the development of group psychology.

Popular critics of unschooling tend to view it as an extreme educational philosophy, with concerns that unschooled children lack the social skills, structure, and motivation of their peers, especially in the job market, while proponents of unschooling say exactly the opposite is true: self-directed education in a natural environment makes a child more equipped to handle the " real world.

Popular areas of study in this third paradigm include investigations of social identities, broadly shared ideologies, and the construction and uses of narrative in interaction among individuals and groups.

The Popular Front policy of the Comintern was introduced in 1934, succeeding its ultra-left " Third Period " during which it condemned non-Communist socialist parties as " social fascist ".

The PCE, directed by José Díaz and Dolores Ibárruri ( known popularly as La Pasionaria ), worked consistently for the victory of the Republican forces and the Popular Front government, but was wary of the popular social revolution that was being waged by Spanish workers.

The manifesto declared the Popular Front's opposition to class-based society, stating " The Republic conceived of by the Republican parties is not a Republic dominated by social or economic class interests, but a regime of democratic liberty ..." but it promised the restoration of certain economic policies of the 1931-33 Spanish government, including increased wages for farmworkers.

Popular fields of study among graduate students include engineering, library and information science, education and social work.

The Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP, ( Arabic: الاتحاد الاشتراكي للقوات الشعبية Al-Ittihad Al-Ishtirakiy Lilqawat Al-Sha ' abiyah, French: Union Socialiste des Forces Populaires ) is a social democratic political party in Morocco.

Popular examples of upward social mobility from America include Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton, who were born into working-class families yet achieved high political office in adult life.

Popular sovereignty in its modern sense-that is, including all the people and not just noblemen-is an idea that dates to the social contracts school ( mid-17th to mid-18th centuries ), represented by Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ), John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), author of The Social Contract, a prominent political work that clearly highlighted the ideals of " general will " and further matured the idea of popular sovereignty.

Second, the Comintern's decision, before the increased popularity of fascist and authoritarian regimes in Europe, to abandon the " social-fascist " position of the early 1930s and replace it with the " Popular Front " position, which advocated an alliance with the social democrats against the Right.

Beside the three main left-wing parties, Radical-Socialists, SFIO and PCF, the Popular Front was supported by the Ligue des droits de l ' homme ( LDH, Human Rights League, formed during the Dreyfus Affair ), the Movement Against War and Fascism, the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes ( Committee of Antifascist Intellectuals Watchdogs, created in 1934 ), and small parties such as Paul Ramadier's Union socialiste républicaine ( USR, right-wing of the SFIO ), the Party of Proletarian Unity ( PUP, created in 1930 and opposed both to social democracy and to the Third International ), the Parti radical-socialiste Camille Pelletan ( created in May 1934 by members of the left-wing of the Radical Party ), etc.

Although the SFIO had opposed sports as a " bourgeois " activity of the " leisure class ", it changed attitude during the Popular Front first of all because its social reforms permitted to the workers ' to participate in such leisure activities, and also because of the increasing risks of a confrontation with Nazi Germany, in particular after the March 1936 remilitarization of the Rhineland, in contradiction with the 1925 Locarno Treaties which had been reaffirmed in 1935 by France, Great Britain and Italy allied in the Stresa Front.

With the support of the Communists under Thorez, Léon Blum became prime minister of a Popular Front government and managed to enact long-needed social legislation.

Claiming irregularities, he prepared to lead the opposition, and in July 1956 in Chincheros, Cuzco, founded the Acción Popular party, claiming the mantle of recapturing indigenous Inca traditions of community and cooperation in a modern social democratic context, placing itself squarely between the pro-oligarchy right-wing and the radicalism of the left-wing APRA and communist parties.

* Popular Action ( Peru ), a centrist and social liberal party

Popular Action ( Spanish: Acción Popular ) is a centrist and social liberal party in Peru.

It was founded as the social movement Belarusian Popular Front " Revival " or BPF ( Belarusian: Беларускі Народны Фронт " Адраджэньне ", БНФ, Biełaruski Narodny Front " Adradžeńnie ", BNF ) during the perestroika times by members of the Belarusian intelligentsia, including Vasil Bykaŭ.

Popular pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime.

Popular and affordable encyclopaedias such as Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia and the Children's Encyclopaedia appeared in the early 1920s.

Popular culture continues to generate large amounts of flaming and countless flamewars across the Internet, such as the constant debates between fans of Star Trek and Star Wars.

Popular films in the genre such as Little Caesar ( 1931 ), The Public Enemy ( 1931 ), and Scarface ( 1932 ) demonstrated that there was an audience for crime dramas with morally reprehensible protagonists.

Popular soft drinks include Schorle, juice or wine mixed with sparkling mineral water, with Apfelschorle being especially popular in southern Germany, and Spezi, made with cola and an orange-flavored drink such as Fanta.

Though spared the bloody civil wars wracking its neighbors, the Honduran army quietly waged a campaign against Marxist-Leninist militias such as Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement, notorious for kidnappings and bombings, and many non-militants.

Popular works that depict John beyond the Robin Hood legends, such as James Goldman's play and later film, The Lion in Winter, set in 1183, commonly present him as an " effete weakling ", in this instance contrasted with the more masculine Henry II.

Aided by Communist and leftist governments such as the former South Yemen ( People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ), the rebels formed the Dhofar Liberation Front, which later merged with the Marxist-dominated Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf ( PFLOAG ).

Popular brands include, in addition to domestic Taffel, a few foreign ones such as Estrella and Pringles.

Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal spread throughout Europe.

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

After a decline during the economic depression, Škoda was again successful with models such as the Popular in the late 1930s.

Popular treatises included books such as The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life and Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.

Popular titles included Sega's own series, notably Sonic the Hedgehog ; Disney movie extensions, such as The Lion King ; and 3rd-party developer games like Shaq Fu.

According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.

* Popular book series such as Harry Potter, Twilight and Dan Brown's " Robert Langdon " ( consisting of The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol ) saw increased interest in various genres such as fantasy, romance, vampire fiction, and detective fiction, as well as young-adult fiction in general.

Popular Japanese ramen chains serve ramen alongside distinctly Japanese dishes such as tempura and yakitori, something which would be seen as odd in Japan.

Popular weapons are AR-15 and semiautomatic variants of AK-47 and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a semiautomatic variant of RK-76.

For decades, magazines such as Popular Mechanics and Mechanix Illustrated offered a way for readers to keep current on useful practical skills and techniques.

Popular movements in the global South such as, for instance, the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign in South Africa have sometimes refused to work with NGOs arguing that this will compromise their autonomy.

Popular copyleft licenses, such as the GPL, have a clause allowing components to interact with non-copyleft components as long as the communication is abstract, such as executing a command-line tool with a set of switches or interacting with a Web server.

" Popular schemes such as the " Women Empowering Women " do exactly this.

Popular histories, such as the books of Paweł Jasienica, tend to present Sigismund as the principal source of these destructive processes ; whereas academic histories are usually not damning of him.