Chapter 3 Flashcards
Culture
System of behaviours, beliefs, knowledges, practices, values, concrete materials, including buildings, tools and sacred items
Dominant Culture
Culture that, through its political and economic power, is able to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour
Dominants
People who are closely linked with the cultural mainstream
Canadian dominants
White, English-speaking, heterosexual, male uni graduate of euro background b/w ages 30-55, in good health, who own homes in middle-class neighbourhoods of cities in Ontario of Quebec
Minority cultures
Those that fall outside of the cultural mainstream
Two subcategories that fall under minority cultures
Countercultures
Subcultures
Counterculture
Are minority cultures that feel the power of the dominant culture and exist is opposition to it
Hippies, bikers
Subcultures
Minority culture that differ in some way to dominant but don’t directly oppose it
Groups organized around occupations or hobbies
High culture
Culture of elite, a distinct minority. Associated with the arts
Cultural capital
High culture requires cultural capital which is the set of skills and knowledge needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someones as a person of a high culture
Popular Culture
Culture of the majority, especially those who do not have power (working class, less educated, woman, racialized minorities)
Mass culture
Refers to people who have little to no agency in the culture they consume (big company dictate what ppl buy, watch, value or believe )
Crucial distinction between popular culture and mass culture
Differ in terms of agency
Agency
Ability of the people to be creative or productive with materials given to them by a dominant culture
Simulacra
Stereotypical cultural images produce and reproduced like material goods or commodities by the media and sometimes by scholars
Inuit represented through igloos, kayaks etc
Hyper real
