ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of an emergent research theme within critical accounting research. Popular culture has been recognised as an insightful new field of scholarly inquiry. The chapter presents an overview of the key themes in the sociology of popular culture. Industrialisation loosened traditional ties and networks and in so doing created the autonomous citizen who embraced mass culture. Globalisation has been the subject of intense academic inquiry for many years now. Organisational, social and cultural theorists have examined the origins and impact of the global corporate firm and pondered the meaning of a global culture for our sense of nationalism and identity. Accounting and popular culture is one such new domain of accounting research. One of the core features of critical accounting research has been its interdisciplinarity. Consequently, accounting and popular culture has the potential to provide a rich and rewarding contribution to critical accounting research.
