Chapter 10 Flashcards
Macrosystem
Describes the culture in which individuals live. Cultural contexts include developing and industrialized countries, socioeconomic status, poverty, and ethnicity.
Culture
The system of information that codes the manner in which people in organized groups, a society or nation interact with the social/physical environment.
CCT ( consumer cultural theory)
Consumer Cultural Theory: The theory that culture is created by people in social contexts actively living their lives.
a stream of research focusing on consumption patterns as a social and cultural practice.
Consumer identity projects
Researchers study how identity is formed through consumption, which helps shape consumer practices.
Marketplace cultures
Where consumers are seen as cultural producers as well as consumers.
Pattern Perpetrators
social patterns of behaviour = norms. People perpetrate these norms, making them pattern perpetrators.
Has CCT helped facilitate the study of socio historic patterns? Y/N?
Yes. CCT has helped the study of socio historic patterns such as age, ethnicity, gender, community & class.
Injunctive Norm
What we should do (what others have done better)
Institutionalized norm
When a norm becomes institutionalized. ex. stopping at red lights.
Rituals
Specific patterns of behaviour typically used to mark special occasions.
Rite of Passage
Ceremonies that mark important transitional periods in a person’s life, such as birth, puberty, marriage, having children, and death.
3 Stages of Rites of passage
Separation - Recognition that your status is changing
Liminality - in between
Aggregation - assumed new status
Prestige Bias
we are more likely to copy people who are successful or popular vs people who are not.
Social Impact Theory
normative forces increase in strength with numbers and status. ex.. the more famous people buy a products the more likely we are to buy that product.
Black sheep effect
non normative behaviour is met with social disapproval
