Seeing Sociology Module 2.3 Vocabulary Flashcards
Withdraw into separate communities where they can live with minimum interference from the larger society which they view as evil
Communitarian Utopians
Subcultures that challenge, contradict, or outright reject the mainstream culture
Countercultures
Some cultural components that elicit broad consensus among members of its importance but also allows debate about its meaning
Cultural Anchors
All the material and nonmaterial resources a person possesses or has access to that are considered useful and desirable (or not)
Cultural Capital
Cultural variety that exists among people who share some physical or virtual space
Cultural Diversity
Everything that has been consciously and unconsciously internalized through the socialization process
Embodied Cultural Capital
Anything recognized as important to success in a particular social setting
Institutionalized Cultural Capital
Search for the truth and for themselves and in the process turn inward
Mystics
Material objects that a person owns outright or has direct access to
Objectified Cultural Capital
Preach, create, or demand a new order with new obligations to others
Radical Activist
Share in certain parts of mainstream culture but have cultural anchors in the mainstream
Subcultures