culture

Question 1

what is high culture?

Answer 1

high culture refers to aspects of culture that are deemed to be fancy and associated with richness like classical music

Question 2

what is low culture?

Answer 2

low culture refers to aspects of culture that are deemed to be associated with lower standards like reality television and popular music

Question 3

culture definition

Answer 3

the ideas and self-concepts of a group or society (attitudes, beliefs, customs, norms and values) in a particular place and time, passing from one generation to the next

Question 4

subculture definition

Answer 4

a group within a larger culture that has distinctive patterns of behaviour, customs and other distinguishing features. subcultures share some of the norms, values and beliefs of the dominant or parent culture but have distinct ones as well

Question 5

material and symbolic culture

Answer 5

• material culture includes the objects associated with a cultural group, such as tools, machines, utensils, buildings and artwork
• symbolic culture includes ways of thinking and ways of behaving

Question 6

othering

Answer 6

• sociologists who study culture often focus on their own cultures. some sociologists, however, engage in the process of “othering” by studying unusual cultural groups
• cultural relativism is the principle of understanding other cultures on their own terms, rather than judging according to one’s culture
• although much research focuses on the differences between cultures, there is also tremendous variation within a culture