Culture Flashcards
What are Norms?
The guidelines of expected behaviours based on cultural values
What are Values?
The beliefs and justifications behind the importance of norms
What is the Relative Nature of Norms and Values?
- Space + Place
2. Over-time
What is Intercultural Diversity?
The differences between different cultures
What is Intracultural Diversity ?
Differences within a culture
What is a Subculture?
Culture within a culture which share distinctive norms + values separate from wider culture
What is Cultural Hybridity?
The merging of 2+ cultures, creating a new cultural identity
What is High Culture?
Cultural practices performed by the powerful, upper class, deemed superior to the culture of masses
What are QUEENIE + FRANK LEAVIS’ reasons to defending High Culture?
+Criticisms of Pop Culture
- Canon has timeless + intrinsic value
- Humanising influence in educating people through its complexities
+ view pop culture as inferior, leading to a dumbing down of intelligence, creativity + critical thinking as it
- Lacks taste
- Overly sentimental
- Addictive
- Superficial
- Dabgerius
What is Popular Culture?
Culture enjoyed by the majority, associative with entertainment culture
What are MARXIST CLARKE + CRITCHER’s criticisms of pop culture?
Contrary to postmodernists, there isn’t liberty in making choices as it’s consumption is manipulated by advertising feeding into global capitalism in its encouragement of extensive buying
What is Consumer Culture?
Where society becomes engulfed in desires to constantly buy + spend, identities largely defined by what is brought + consumed in portraying our identities
What is Conspicuous Consumption?
The buying of particular designer goods + brands solely bought to be used as status symbols in proving ones wealth
What is Global Culture??
The growing process of cultural products + activities becoming universal through globalisation- the world becoming interconnected through shares ibfkuenves
What is RITZER’s MCDONALDISATION?
Spreading influence of western ideas make societies culturally identical suggesting globalisation leads to a lord of individualisation + separate traditions
