Culture

Question 1

What is culture

Answer 1

The way of life of a social group - patterns of belief, values, attitudes which people use to make sense of their social worlds

Question 2

How many different types of culture are there

Answer 2

9

Question 3

What is dominant culture

Answer 3

The main culture of society

Question 4

What is mass culture

Answer 4

A set of norms and values the vast majority follow due to exposure to the same media

Question 5

What is consumer culture

Answer 5

A culture based on social status earned through consumerism

Question 6

What is a subculture

Answer 6

A smaller group broken off from main culture - within it different norms and values but branched off from main

Question 7

What is high culture

Answer 7

A culture enjoyed by this within higher status (provides cultural capital)

Question 8

What is low culture

Answer 8

A culture associated with the poorer

Question 9

What is popular culture

Answer 9

An easy to understand and popular culture which majority of young people follow

Question 10

What is folk culture

Answer 10

A culture based on local customs and beliefs pasted down through generations

Question 11

What is global culture

Answer 11

A one world culture due to mass media and easier connections through globalisations

Question 12

What do functionalist believe about culture

Answer 12

It provides social order
Creates a shared value consensus
Creates social solidarity because of the above

Question 13

What do functionalist argue are the 4 key subsystems that maintain social order

Answer 13

Economic
Political
Family and kinship
Cultural

Question 14

What is a value consensus

Answer 14

Everybody shares the same norms and values

Question 15

What is social solidarity

Answer 15

The feeling of togetherness and that you belong within society

Question 16

What do Marxists believe about culture

Answer 16

It benefits capitalism as mass culture controls work
Gramsci - hegemony
Mass culture creates false needs (believe they need something when they dont)
Leads to commodity fetishism (super power) which leads to fade class consciousness (distracted exploitation)

Question 17

What do feminist believe about culture

Answer 17

Benefits men and the patriarchy
Mass/popular culture stereotype women into particular roles - making patriarchy normal
McRobbie - magazines for girls promote housewife roles
Women are often sexualised in the media

Question 18

What do interactionists believe about culture

Answer 18

Is created by the interactions between people rather than being imposed by structures of society
Culture is shaped by developing people

Question 19

What do post modernists believe about culture

Answer 19

Is it diverse
Interchanging with the changing society
Pick and choose what culture we want - is it not relative to one group of people

Question 20

What is nature (sociology)

Answer 20

Refers to all genes and hereditary factors

Question 21

What is the nature theory

Answer 21

Belief that people behave as they do because they are animals and who primarily act according to instincts

Question 22

What is nurture

Answer 22

Refers to all the environmental variable that impact who we are

Question 23

What was the nurture example we studied

Answer 23

Feral children
Girl developed animalistic behaviour from being in isolation from human contact