Culture And Identity Sociologists

Question 1

Durkheim

Answer 1

Functionalist
Primitive classification
Collective conscience

Question 2

Marx

Answer 2

Marxist
Das Kapital
False class consciousness

Question 3

Gans

Answer 3

Neo-Marxist
Popular and High culture
Taste Cultures

Question 4

Strinati

Answer 4

Critical of cultural theories
Introduction to theories of popular culture
Mass culture threatens hierarchy of taste

Question 5

Storey

Answer 5

Globalisation theorist
Global and popular culture
Hybridisation

Question 6

Sassure

Answer 6

Structuralist
Study of signs and linguistics
Semiology

Question 7

Crook

Answer 7

Postmodernist
Lifestyle choice replaces social difference
Post-culture

Question 8

Parsons

Answer 8

Functionalist
Functional pre-requisites
Pattern maintenance

Question 9

Willis

Answer 9

Neo-Marxist
Learning to labour
Counterculture

Question 10

Bourdieu

Answer 10

Neo-Marxist
Structures, habitus and practices
Cultural capital

Question 11

Handel

Answer 11

Interactionist
Childhood socialisation
Empathy, communication and self-awareness

Question 12

Oakley

Answer 12

Feminist
Women Confined
Canalising through toys and books

Question 13

Thorne

Answer 13

Feminist
Gender in school
Gender segregation

Question 14

Woodward

Question 15

Hall

Question 16

Bauman

Question 17

Jenkins

Question 18

Bradley

Question 19

Scranton

Question 20

Craik