Lecture 2: Societal Depth Flashcards
Culture
Sum of Socially Transmitted Ideas, Practices, and Material Objects that people create to deal with real life problems
society
group of people who interact in a definable territory and share the same culture
Dominant Culture
The ruling class that establishes dominance by controlling certain aspects of daily life
Subordinate Culture
the ones that are being controlled
Cultural Hegemony
the control of a culture by dominant classes and other groups to where their uni-values are accepted as common
High culture
culture consumed by higher status individuals
low culture
culture consumed by all classes
Ethnocentrism
judging other cultures by the standards of our own (Christianity)
Multiculturalism gov.
federal gov policy that encourages and maintains culturally diverse communities (canada)
multiculturalism not gov.
communities and nations of different ethnic and racial background
countercultures
subversive subcultures that oppose dominant values and wanna replace them
subculture
set of specific values, norms and practices within a wide range of culture
components of culture
evolutionary psychologists’, genetics evolving with environment, language
types of norms
Folkway, norms and values, taboos, ideas, sanctions, mores
folkway
not punishable just socially looked down on
norms
accepting way of doing things
mores
core norm society beliefs in and is essential for us to live
abstraction
ideas that people create
symbols
signs or things that carry meaning (math)
taboo
type of unacceptable norm punishable severely
production
human capacity to use tools
material culture
tools and techniques to that enable people to accomplish tasks
symbolic interactionists theory
Human behaviour governs by meaning people attach to things, specifically in social areas, communication, and social interactions
Sapir-wholf
experience, conceptualization, and verbalization of behaviours of experiences and form concepts of those
conflict theory approaches
- social structure
- inequality
- conflict and change
feminist
a person that stands for equal rights (men and women)
structural functionalism
thought according to the institutions, roles, and norms that constitute in society
globalization
process which formerly separated individuals, groups, institutions, economies, states, and culture become tied together, and ppl being aware of the independence
Postmodernism
culture which is culturally mixed of elements from different times, places and the erosion of authority and decline of world values
culture in freedom
the rapid growth, understanding, acceptance and tolerance of different kinds of cultures
culture constraint
culture that acts as constraining forces on our lives
rationalization
Werkenglocken, widespread acceptance of regiment means to increase productivity.
McDonaldization
Consumerism
tendency to define ourselves as our goods, and services we purchase. “I shop, therefore I am”
Components of Culture: Language
a system in that, when stringed together, forms way we communicate
what is language based off?
- common understanding
- experience
- knowledge
- evolving with changing circumstances
non-verbal commuication
culturally defined expectations of appropiate behaviour is largely gendered
insult and harm don’t understand gestures and body language
- white mental health workers misinterpret indigenous body language
- indigenous culture = maintaining eyecontact (disrepectful, dishonest, guilty)
automatic process
acquire info to assess situation
status cues rule 3 + 4
- makes interaction easier
- status can degenerate into stereotypes (rigid views how certain people act, regardless of whether individual group members behave that way)
