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SOC 100 - Slide 2 Flashcards

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Culture

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Leads to familiarity and comfort in social interactions or divisions and “otherness”

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Language

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Reflects priorities, history and spirit of a culture

  - Includes slang, argot, euphemisms 
  - Includes non verbal communication
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Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis

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Language influences cognition

- Mailman; fireman; anchorman
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Formal Norms

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Laws; professional certification requirement

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Taboos

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Intense prohibited behaviour

 ex. Incest
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Mores

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Reflect our most cherished principles

- Child Labour
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Informal Norma

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Give up bus seat to elderly person, queue in hall until classroom is empty; face doors in elevator

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Folkways

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Questioning/ not your instructor - cultural differences

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Sanctions

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Rewards and penalties for conduct

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Discourse

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Refers to the way we conceptualizer and talk about an issue

-Individualist discourse
stresses importance of the community
versus
individualist discourse
focused on importance of individual common good as a coherent concept

  Addiction is an illness or an individual failing
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Subculture

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group that shared the cultural elements of the larger society but also has its own distinctive values, beliefs, norms, style of dress, and behaviour patterns

Hippies, cosplay

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Counterculture

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subculture that rejects conventional norms and values and adopts alternative ones

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High Culture

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High income group preferences, tastes, and norms

  • Ex. fine arts, ballet

Excludes more people than it includes

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Popular (mass) culture

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culture of “ordinary” ( majority) people; objects, preferences, and tastes that are widespread in society

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Cultural Capital

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Body of knowledge and social skills that help people get ahead socially

  • People with a lot of cultural capital also have a lot of social capital
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Social Capital

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Includes resources ( both economic and non economic that gains from being part of a network of social relationships

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Cultural Literacy

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Enough general knowledge of a society’s popular culture that allows one to communicate effectively with an adult member of that society

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Dimension of Culture (PST)

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  1. Physical
    Ex. Metropolitan Toronto
  2. Social
    Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Social Class
  3. Temporal
    Ex. Culture Evolves
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Globalization

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Increased flow of goods, services and information beyond state boundaries

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Cultural Lag

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Non- material culture struggles to keep up with material culture

techno change or smtg similar like tools, develop faster than society can process the change

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Cultural Imperialism

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Global Dominance of American Culture

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Cultural Functionalism

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Culture reflects the needs of society

value of multiculturalism because we need to increase our population through immigration and not enough people of british or french stock want to immigrant here
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Marxist

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Culture determined by political-economic structure

Capitalism requires that we are generous towards those in need because capitalism is responsible for inequalities
  • culture can be manipulated by dominant groups and employed to maintain hegemony
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Hegemony

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Set of relatively non-coercive methods of maintaining power used by the dominant class
- through media or legal system

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Antonio Gramsci ( 1891-1937)

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Notebook (Prison)

*Theory of cultural hegemony

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Cultural Hegemony

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The domination of the masses by prevailing ideas and cultural forms important to smaller but more dominant groups in society

 The dominating groups wins the voluntary consent of popular masses

Domination - uses state force

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Max Weber

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Symbolic Interactionism

Culture is not a product of social or political structure but is a product of creative individual members of society

concluded that Protestantism aided the advancement of capitalism

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Erving Goffman / Symbolic Interactionism/ total institution

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we perform a role based on cultural script in our interactions with others

manage impressions of ourselves on the front stage and our real selves are back on back stage

  • dramaturgical perspective
    Front stage is what we show society and back stage is our true self

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