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Types Of Culture Flashcards

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What are the types of culture ?

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  • cultural diversity
  • cultural hybridity
  • subculture
  • high culture
  • popular culture
  • global culture
  • consumer culture
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What is diversity

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Variety or difference

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What is cultural diversity ?

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Difference and variety found In societies

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What are the two types of cultural diversity ?

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Intercultural and intracultural diversity

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What is intercultural diversity?

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Difference BETWEEN cultures

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What is intracultural diversity?

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Differences WITHIN cultures

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what is example of intercultural diversity ?

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Margret Mead, Hamar Tribe and the IK

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What are the examples of intracultural diversity?

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Regional diversity, social class diversity and ethnic diversity

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What is ethnic diversity ?

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  • 9% of UK population is made up of minority ethnic groups who remain commited to mother culture
  • language , food , costums and religion will subscribing to norms and values of British culture
  • south Asians wear Salwar kameez
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What is social class diversity ?

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Britain is a class socket made up of different social economic groups
- upper class , middle class and working class
- each with distinctive cultural characteristics

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What is regional diversity?

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Key regions of the UK
- northern and southern England, Scotland and wales
- with own traditions , costums and norms

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What is hybrid ?

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Cross between or merging of two or more things

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What is cultural hybridity ?

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Two or more cultures merge to create a new culture

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Example of cultural/ethnic hybridity ?

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  • Johal : white mask
  • Nayak: white wannabe
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What did Johal:white mask focus on ?

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Focused on second and third generation British-Asians

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What did Johal:white mask find ?

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Dual identity that inherit an Asian identity and adopt a British one

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What does Johal:white mask say Asian youths adopt ?

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Asian youth adopting a white mask to interact with White Peers at schools and college but emphasising cultural difference when necessary

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according to Johal: white mask what do Asian youth who Interact with white peers emphasise ?

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Cultural differences when feel it is necessary

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What do British-Asian adopt according to Johal:white mask ?

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Hybrid identities

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Johal: white mask example of global culture in music

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Young British Asian listen to Bhangra music a mixture of Punjabi music with Western Rythm

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What is white wannabe according to Nayak ?

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White British males who dress,act and speak in way that influenced black hip hop culture

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Example of multicultural London English ?

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Jafaican style of accent and speech used in london by white people influenced by African Caribbean speech and accents

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What is Nayak: white wannabe , Jafacian a product of ?

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Mixed groups of white and black young people influence each other

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What did Nayak: white wannabe Mixed groups of white and black young people influence each other create ?

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Hybrid dialect

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What is a subculture?

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  • A culture within a culture- smaller grouping of people
  • a group who share distinctive norms and values which differ from wider culture
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What are some examples of subcultures?

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Emo , punks , skaters

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What is the key study of subculture ?

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Anti-school subculture:
Wills

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What was Paul Willis’ study ?

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  • Paul Willis studied/focused on working class lads
  • saw themselves as school failures but turned it around to a good thing
  • messing around in school as knew they would be working in the factory like fathers so don’t have value of education
  • did a follow up and saw nothing changed still messing around
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Who developed the four features of subculture ?

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Paul Hodkinson

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What was the four features of a subculture by Paul Hodkinson ?

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  1. Commitment
  2. Identity
  3. Distinctivess
  4. Autonomy
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What is commitment?

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Members must be commited to the point that subculture influence pattern everyday life e.g free time, shopping, going out

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What is identity ?

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Members share a sense of connection with group insiders and share aspect of identity and this separates the insider from the outsiders

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What is distinctiveness ?

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Sense of taste, ideas or values which is different from those of other groups and consistent with the group

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What is autonomy ?

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Subculture are independent and self governing so do not rely on mainstream culture to produce what is needed for the group to function

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What is high culture ?

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Refers to the cultural practise that are associated with the powerful, wealthy, elite and upper social classes

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How can high culture been seen as ?

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Ween as superior to popular culture or culture of the masses

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what are the examples of a high culture ?

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  • opera
  • ballerina
  • theatre
  • art e.g Da Vinci
  • Literature e.g Charles Dickens
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What are the studies for high culture ?

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  • the cultural importance of high culture
  • the superiority of high culture: FRANK & QUEENIE LEAVIS
39
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according to the cultural importance of high culture why does the supporters of high culture see these activities as special ?

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believed that these activities are special because they represent the nations cultural heritage

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according to the culture importance of high culture due to the supporters of the high cultures seeing these activities as special what examples enforce how special it is ?

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  • this is why society invest millions of pounds into institutions such as museums and art galleries
  • sky art , newspapers devote much time and space to high culture
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what are the reasons Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture wanted to defend high culture?

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  • the work in the canon is timeless
  • it has humanising influence
  • is high culture elitist ?
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
what is the work in the canon is timeless ?

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they have stood the test of time. the values lie within the work themselves. this is called intrinsic value

43
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what was opera, classical music, classical literature often referred as ?

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the canon

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
why does the work in the cannon as timeless have intrinsic value ?

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they stood the test of time and the values lie within the works themselves

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
why does high culture have a humanising influence ?

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readers of classical work will be rewarded for putting their efforts in understanding them

46
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to it has a humanising influence what will be more difficult to understand ?

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works in the canon

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to it has a humanising influence despite works in canon being difficult to understand why is it still good to study it ?

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but by studying them we better and educate ourselves

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to is high culture elitist who is high culture associated with ?

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small elite in society

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to is high culture elitist : what do the small elite in society operate ?

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operate a social closure

50
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to is high culture elitist : what is social closure ?

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not allowing entry of ‘outsiders’

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to is high culture elitist : why do the elites operate a social closure ?

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so elites can continue to maintain high culture elite and exclusive position

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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture
according to is high culture elitist : why is high culture limiting their accessibility to the average person ?

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expensive and cultural products require a high level of education audience to appreciate their value

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