Module 3 - Culture

Question 1

Five defining features of culture?

Answer 1

Culture is :
Learned
Shared
Transmitted
Cumulative
Human

Question 2

What is ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Tendency to view ones own culture as superior
Judging another culture because of your own
ex. using a styrofoam cup in certain cultures and reusing it, others might think that is not right

Question 3

Explain Culture Relativism

Answer 3

Avoid judging other cultures and realizing that each needs to be evaluated on their own terms

Question 4

explain culture shock and re culture shock

Answer 4

Culture shock is being exposed to a new culture and being weirded out of struggling to understand because you’re so used to your own. then there is re entry shock that consists of returning back to your culture and realizing that its been changed since you’ve been there and it becomes way less familiar as you get exposed

Question 5

Gramsci argued cultural hegemony, what is it

Answer 5

control of culture by dominant classes and other groups to the point where their values are universally accepted as common sense

Question 6

explain Bourdieu’s Cultural capital ideas

Answer 6

Symbolic elements that you could acquire while being a part of a certain social class.
could give you a higher or lower status in the eyes of others.
ex. Steak and lobster is very different than Kraft dinner for supper. Posture or even mannerisms too.