The booklet offers a variety of suggestions for integrating a study of popular culture into the high school social studies classroom. Popular culture is described as those elements in society which have the primary function of entertaining or selling and which are becoming a familiar, recognizable, and identifiable entity for a large number of people. Some reasons for studying popular culture are that it is intimately connected with the individual's personal and social development; students possess an intimate and detailed knowledge of popular culture; the resources are abundant and inexpensive; and popular culture has lasting social importance and significance. Teaching suggestions include the areas of popular music, television and movies, social gatherings, printed materials, fads and fashions, and careers. Music activities include listing qualities and rating stars, rewriting lyrics to tell of a local incident, and voting on values depicted in selected statements from songs. Television provides a study of propaganda and of distortion of reality through video techniques. An examination of social gatherings could lead to simulations and creative writing exercises. Popular magazines can be investigated according to audience appeal and a history of clothing fashion show could depict fads and fashions. Finally, strategies for career education include exploratory mini-courses and classifying jobs in terms of glamour. (KC)