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Sociological perspectives on culture Flashcards

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Spencer

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Social evolutionism - culture develops as survival mechanism against nature

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Marx and Weber

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Conflict Theory - creates second nature, alienation form the species-being

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Frankfurt School

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Critical theory - culture produced in industry, mass culture = mass deception

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Durkheim

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functionalism - Mass culture upholds values for society to function well

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Goffman

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Symbolic interactionism - socialization through interaction

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Saussure, Freud, Levi-Strauss

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Structuralism - language has structure that shapes behaviour

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Barthes, Derrida, Foucault

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Post-structuralism - Language can’t translate reality well

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McLuhan

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Modernism- Peak of development = consumer culture, technology creates culture

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Baudrillard, Bourdieu

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Post-modernism - live in hyper-real world, no universal truth, truth is understood culturally

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SOCI 219: Sociology of culture (2 decks)

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