Culture Topic Key Theorists + Ideas

Question 1

Back (cultural hybridity)

Answer 1

(1996) ‘ Neighbourhood nationalism’

A feeling of solidarity + common identity with people from the same area

Question 2

Nayak (cultural hybridity)

Answer 2

(2003) ‘white wannabees’

Used to describe the way white British males who dress, act and speak in a way that is influenced by black hip-hop culture

Question 3

Parekh (multiculturalism)

Answer 3

(2006) 3 types of diversity

1) When members of a society have distinct ways of life while broadly serving the dominant culture within society.

2) Some members of a society rebel against the central principles, rejecting dominant values

3) Communal diversification: ethnic groups have long-established communities adding diversity to the dominant way

Question 4

Barker (multiculturalism)

Answer 4

(2003)

Multiculturalism is a celebration of difference

Question 5

McLuhan (global culture)

Answer 5

(1964) Global Village

The world is now so interconnected we have a global culture which is maintained through travel and the internet

Question 6

Lury (1996)

Answer 6

Consumer Culture

5 features of a consumer culture:
- availability
- shopping for leisure
- forms of shopping
- if debt from shopping is seen as a norm
- if packing and promotion is a large scale business

Question 7

Veblen

Answer 7

Consumer Culture

‘Conspicuous Culture’
- when a person consumes goods to create an identity

Question 8

Adorno

Answer 8

High + Popular Culture

• popular culture akin to factories standardising goods to manipulate mass society

Question 9

Clarke & Critcher (1995)

Answer 9

High + Popular Culture

You can’t choose which you can access because consumption is shaped by corporations

Question 10

Bourdieu (1984)

Answer 10

High + Popular Culture

Distinction between both lies in the power I’d the group who access each of them

Different by not superior

Question 11

Strinati (1995)

Answer 11

High + Popular Culture

Media is largely responsible for creating popular culture - consumption plays a role

Question 12

Margaret Mead (1935)

Answer 12

Studied 3 tribes in New Guinea by living amongst them:

• Arapesh: both gentle
  -Mundugamor: both violent cannibals
  -Tchambuli: male and female roles are the reverse of Western societies