Culture Flashcards
NORMS
social rules which define the acceptable and expected ways of behaving in a given social situation
Norms come from our agreed values for example honesty and manners.
Cultural relativity
- Plummer
- norms change from place to place, time to time, culture to culture
Hamar tribe
- The coming of age ceremony
- whipping women
- jumping over cows
Mead
- gender roles
examples
- putting hand up in class
- waiting in lines
- not being nude in public
VALUES
beliefs and ideas that society sees as important, and that are accepted by the majority of society
Functionalists
- value wealth
- educational success and achievement
- motivation
- value competition
- meritocracy if you work hard you will make it up to the top
Marxist
- ruling class want the subject class to be obedient
- value consumerism
- commodity fetishism
- greed and envy
CULTURE
refers to a large and diverse set of mostly intangible aspects of social life
SUBCULTURE
It is defined as a culture within a culture
Durkheim
- positivist
- A smaller group of people who share distinctive norms and values
All of the groups are apart of a wider UK culture but also part of distinctive subcultures
Examples
- goth
- emo
- skaters within teen youth
POPULAR CULTURE
Activities enjoyed by the masses of the population
Dominic Stranati
-media has a big influence and it contrasts with high culture
Pop culture involves cultural products that is very heavily influenced to the media that results in consumerism
examples
- hollywood
- football
- soap opera
- pop music
- magazines
HIGH CULTURE
refers to the cultural processes that are associated with the powerful and wealthy elite
Leavis 1930:
- founded high culture
- said cultures are to be high or low
Contrasts popular culture as you can buy your way in
Education:
- extremely valued
- private education only
Examples:
- ballet
- polo
- hunting/shooting
- opera and classical literature
CONSUMER CULTURE
The goods and services we buy and consume in society
Consumer society:
- identity becomes largely defined by the things we buy and consume
- rates increasing due to media influence
- consumerism becoming more accessible
examples:
- oversized shopping centres
- shopping becoming leisure
- conspicuous consumption
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CULTURAL DIVERSITY
The existence of different cultural or ethnic groups in society
Parekh 2006
- multiculturalism
- There are 3 types of diversity
Culturally embedded differences within society
examples
- class
- gender
- ethnicity
- sexuality
CULTURAL HYBRIDITY
the merging of different cultures
uk culture is a hybrid as it contains aspects of english, scottish, welsh and irish culture
uk is also influenced by american and asian culture
GLOBAL CULTURE
the growing cultural influences that connect countries economically and socially
McLuhan 1986
- global village
- world is industrialized
Americanisation
- McDonaldisation (mcdonalds as influenced global cuisine)
- many american brands and characteristics are being adopted by other countries
The transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.
CULTURAL RELATIVITY
a position, developed by early anthropologists, that states we must understand individuals in the context of their own culture
In the UK there are subcultures based on?
- age
- political beliefs
- ethnicity
- religion
conspicuous consumption
the aquisition of high-status goods and brands
intracultural diversity
refers to the fact that over the last 60 years the UK has become a more culturally diverse society
Illustrated in the UK by:
- regional differences
- class differences
- ethnic and religios differences
