"Cultural tropes" refers to recurring ideas, themes, or stereotypes that are commonly found in a particular culture. They are often recognizable patterns or symbols that represent certain concepts or beliefs within a society. Full definition
This may simply be another set of cultural tropes that only feel fresh because I'm not as used to them. (mmobro.com)
Instead, he presents it as something resembling a collective modern brain, consisting of nonstop aggression, lonely self - aggrandizement and never - ending violence, a godless place in which a sentimental attachment to worthless pop cultural tropes has taken the place of spirituality. (sfchronicle.com)
Referencing fashion, women's domestic labor, and Surrealism, Stainman uses cultural tropes around beauty to create an embodied response in the viewer as a method of exploring the connection between body and mind. (airgallery.org)