Pop culture Flashcards
[There are] at least six mutually related ideas about culture that we call inadequate.
- Culture is homogenous.
2.Culture is a thing. - Culture is uniformly distributed among members of a group.
- An individual possesses but a single culture.
- Culture is custom.
6.Culture is timeless
This presumes that a (local) culture is free of internal paradoxes and contradictions such that (a) it provides clear and unambiguous behavioral “instructions” to individuals - a program for how to act - or (b) once grasped or learned by an outsider, it can be characterized in relatively straightforward ways (“the Dobuans are paranoid”*).
- Culture is homogenous.
The reification of culture - regarding culture as a thing - leads to a notion that “it” is a thing that can act, almost independently of human actors. There is no hint of individual agency here.
Culture is a thing
A good contemporary example of this sort of thinking is ___ “clash of civilization argument.
Samuel Huntington’s
The term is used as a shorthand way of referring, as we shall see, to bundles of ______ and _____, and it is a series of short (cognitive) steps from shorthand to metonymy to reification.
complicated cognitive and perceptual processes
Intracultural variation, whether at the individual or group level, is ignored or dismissed as ?.
deviance
This idea imputes cognitive, affective, and behavioral uniformity to all members of the group.
- Culture is uniformly distributed among members of a group.
He or she is simply a Somali, a Mexican, or an American. Culture is thus synonymous with group identity.
- An individual possesses but a single culture.
was then compounded by ____ who took up the notion of culture (as “political culture”) and privileged the nation-state as their unit of analysis
- hence the “national character” idea.
political scientists
was then compounded by political scientists who took up the notion of culture (as “political culture”) and privileged the nation-state as their unit of analysis
- hence the “ ____ _____” idea.
national character
person possesses and controls several cultures in the same way, as sociolinguists tell us, that even a so-called monolingual speaker controls different
“
______” of the same language or dialect.
registers
This idea holds that culture is structurally undifferentiated, that what you see is what you get.
Culture is custom
The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as _____ ___ once put it, merely a matter of “differential etiquette”.
Peter Black
The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as _____ ___ once put it, merely a matter of “differential etiquette”.
Peter Black
The culture here reduces to a sort of surface-level etiquette. Cultural variation is, as Peter Black once put it, merely a matter of “?
differential etiquette”.
. .
Closely related to the culture-is-custom view (indeed, to all of the above views), the idea that culture is timeless imputes a changeless quality to culture, especially to so-called traditional ones.
Culture is timeless.
. .
Closely related to the culture-is-custom view (indeed, to all of the above views), the idea that culture is timeless imputes a changeless quality to culture, especially to so-called traditional ones.
Culture is timeless.
We speak here, for example, of “the Arab mind” as though a unitary cognizing element has come down to us from _____.
Muhammed’s Mecca
These six ____ ideas about culture are related and mutually reinforcing. Using ten reague great did arite, the is one citar contept es au nalytical
inadequate
Is a political term referring to a government and a set of formal and legal mechanism that have been established to regulate the political behavior of it’s people
Nation
Determine by a nation and not by a culture
Foreign policies
This nation is often regarded as so homogeneous that the word Japanese is commonly used to refer both to the nation and to the culture.
Japan
Though this,it’s overwhelmingly predominates within the nation of Japan, there are other cultures living there.
Yamato Japanese culture
These groups include the Ainu, an indigenous group with their own culture, religion, and language; mainly from ?
Okinawa, Korea, and China;
