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Culture

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A way of life focusing on the beliefs and customs of a society or social group - it includes : fashion, knowledge, language, music, morals, laws, traditions, lifestyle etc

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Status

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Can be held by an individual or group based on social position or standing within society

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Roles

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A pattern of behaviours ur, routines or responses acted out in everyday life

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Subculture

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A minority part of a majority culture - a cultural sub group differentiated by status, ethnic background, residence, religion or other factors that functionally unify the group and act collectively on each member

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Examples of subcultures

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Punks 
Emo’s
Skinheads 
Chavs 
Hippies
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Consumer culture

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Suggests that consumption (the act of buying goods or services) is a cultural activity one imbued with meaning driven not just by practical or economic factors.

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Examples of consumer culture

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People are spending more money
Debts are now acceptable
Shopping addictions
People are presented in a stereotypical way - for promotion

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Taylor (consumer culture)

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McDonaldisation - society is becoming more like a business where mass trends are produced (focused on American ideals)

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Polemus (consumer culture)

Supermarket of style

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The media is a tool which we can ‘shop for our style’ or tells us what is cool and what we should and shouldn’t buy

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Williams (consumer culture)

Parents buy their children …

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Gender stereotypical toys - due to advertising

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Thornton (consumer culture)

The media is responsible for bringing about…

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youth cultures and subcultures - they gain knowledge and experience subcultures through the media also they are told what style to buy into

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Belk definition (consumer culture)
It is defined as a culture in which the majority of consumers
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Avidly desire goods and services that are valued for non utilitarian reasons eg status seeking , envy provocation and novelty seeking

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Lury - features of a consumer culture

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Availability of a wide range of consumer goods
Shopping a leisure pursuit
Different forms of shopping available
Dept accepted as a social norm
Packaging and promotion of good on a large scale business

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Popular culture

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Is the totality of ideas perspectives attitudes images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus with the mainstream of a culture it is often seen as trivial and dumbed down in order to find consensual acceptance through out mainstream

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Examples of popular culture

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Fast food
Cinema
Mainstream music
Football

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McRobbie and Garber (popular culture)

Studied bedroom …

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Culture of teenage girls - centred around ‘Jackie’ magazine

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Mac and Gail study (pop culture)

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Macho lads

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Thornton (popular culture)

The media is largely …

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Responsible for bringing about youth cultures and subcultures

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High culture

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A set of cultural products held in highest esteem the cultures of an elite such as aristocracy. It is contrasted with the low culture or pop culture of the less well educated

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Polemus (popular culture)

In our postmodern society media provides …

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Us with a tool to shop for our style

‘Supermarket of style’

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Bourdieu (high culture)

Cultural …

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Capital eg. Knowledge of classical music, literature and art is passed down from generation to generation

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Berger (high culture)

Analysed oil…

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Paintings and said that art is used to transmit ideas that possessions are important - materialistic

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Goldman (high culture)

Analysed literature and said that

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Class played a big part in the stories

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Global culture

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One world culture - the earths inhabitants will lose their cultural diversity and one culture will be experienced by all people

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Examples of global culture

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McDonalds
World news
Global brands - apple, Sony, BMW
Fashion (mixing)

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Taylor (global culture study)

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McDonaldisation - society is becoming more like a business where mass trends are produced (focused on American ideals)

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Johal and Bains (global culture study)

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Children adopt a metaphorical ‘white mask’ to fit in with the majority culture - everyone is becoming the same

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Polemus (global culture study)

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We shop for our style - we chose how we want to portray ourselves
Gender, class, ethnicity doesn’t matter anymore

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Parker and Song (global culture study)

The internet is increasingly being used by minority ethnic groups to organise …

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Social events, provide forums for discussion of issues related to ethnic minority groups

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Glocalisation

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Business adapts to suit the people in the area

Eg McDonalds

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Cultural diversity

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Ethnic, gender, racial, age, and socioeconomic variety within a society

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Examples of cultural diversity

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Ethnic minorities - 2011 = 8% 2051 = 20%
Class differences - working , middle
Same sex marriage legalised in the UK
Ageism - different age groups being better represented

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Cricher (cultural diversity study)

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Moral panics about homosexuals in the media eg. AIDs

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Humphries (cultural diversity study)

Tearoom trade

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Homos would secretly have sex in the bathroom when being gay was illegal

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Ward and Winstanley (cultural diversity study)

People coming …

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Out in the workplace through interpersonal chat

Done differently by different workplaces

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Song (cultural diversity study)

Family and cultural background …

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Can influence the workplace

Eg Chinese following into family restaurant business

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Parker and Song (cultural diversity study)

The internet is increasingly being used by ethnic minorities to organise …

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Social events, provide forums for discussion of issues related to ethnic minority groups

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Examples of high culture

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Polo
Clay pigeon shooting
Eating Caviar
High tea

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Ethnic hybrid

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When different ethnic styles of cultures are combined

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Mac and Gail study (High Culture)

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The real Englishman school subculture engaged in high culture, believed they were superior to teachers due to their social status

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Contemporary examples of ethnic hybrid

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Brasians

Wigger

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Cultural navigation - Ballard

Young minorities…

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Switch codes eg. Behave differently at home and with peers

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Assimilation

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When the ethnic culture is abandoned and the mainstream culture is adapted

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Seidler (Evidence of cultural navigation)

Girls from Asian backgrounds …

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Lead a double life
Traditional = at home
Questioning femininity = outside

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Johal and Bains (evidence of cultural navigation)

Found that at school children …

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Adopt a metaphorical ‘white mask’ to fit in with the majority culture

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