The Nature of Culture: Essential Flashcards
Cultural Practice
The things that people do in everyday life.
e.g. greeting each other
Cultural Product
The things that we encounter in our everyday lives.
Elite Culture
The culture of those with power and influence.
High Culture
According to Arnold: “the best that has been thought and said” of art, literature and music.
Popular (Low) Culture
The products and practices of everyday life as practices and valued by ordinary people.
Youth Culture
The cultural products and practices of the young.
Ethnicity
A term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference, Ethnic character, background or affiliation.
Gender
Refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.
Meanings and Practices of Everyday Life (MPEL)
The codes and conventions that govern the way we live our lives.
Prejudice
A pre-formed opinion, usually an unfavourable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings or inaccurate stereotypes.
Register
Used to describe variations in the use of language or other communication codes associated with a particular context such as a job, an area of technical expertise or social setting.
As a student, part of the task is to learn the register of your subject.
Ritual
The system of set procedures and actions of a group.
Social Class
Any category based on power, wealth or income.
Socialisation
All of the processes through which we are inducted into society.
Status
The relative position or standing of somebody or something in a society or other group.
