Chapter 2 Culture And Media Flashcards
Dominant culture
The culture of the most powerful group in society.
Popular culture
The beliefs, practices, and objects that are part of everyday traditions.
Reflection hypothesis
The idea that the mass media reflect the values of the general population.
Mass media
Channels of communication that are available to very wide segments of the population.
Ethnomethodology
A technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individual’s attempt to restore normally.
Cultural hegemony
The pervasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society.
Mores
Strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.
Sapir whorf hypothesis
A theory that language determines other aspects of culture.
Material culture
The objects created in a given society.
Social sanctions
Mechanisms of social control that enforce norms
Subcultures
The culture of groups whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture.
Cultural capital
Aka social Capitol cultural resources that are socially designated as being worthy and that give advantages to groups possessing such Capitol.
Values
The abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles.
Countercultures
Subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture.
Non material culture
The norms, laws, ideas, and beliefs of a group of people.
Digital divide
The persistence of inequality in people’s access to electronic information.
Folkways
The general standards of behavior adhered to by a group.
Beliefs
Shared ideas held collectively by people within a given culture.
Culture lag
The delay In cultural adjustments to changing social conditions.
Culture shock
The feeling of disorientation a that can come when one encounters a new or rapidly changed cultural situation.
Social media
The term used to refer to the vast networks of social interaction that new media have created.
Language
A set of symbols and rules that, when put together in a meaningful way, provides a complex communication system.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that ones in-group is superior to all out groups.
Global culture
The diffusion of a single culture throughout the world.
Culture relativism
The idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears.
Taboos
Those behaviors that bring the most serious sanctions.
Norms
The specific cultural expectations for how to act in a given situation.
Symbols
Things or behavior To which people give meanings
Culture
The complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society.
Laws
The written set of guidelines that define what is right and wrong in society.
Cultural diffusion
The transmission of cultural elements from one society or cultural group to another.
Counterculture
Subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture
Sub culture
The culture whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture.
