Culture Flashcards

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Culture is

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the collection of values, beliefs and material objects that define a society as a cohesive unit/ a whole way of life of a group or society

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2
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Material culture

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cars, clothes, homes

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3
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Non-material culture

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values and beliefs

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4
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Four major components of culture

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symbols, language, values, norms

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5
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values are… and norms are…

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general, specific

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6
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W.G Sumner noted what two special types of norms that are evident in a societies

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mores and folkways

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7
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what is a mores

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norms that provoke outrage when they are violated

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8
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what are folkways

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norms that do not provoke outrage when they are violated

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9
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Subculture

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cultural patterns that distinguish some segment of a society population

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10
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Countercultures

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cultural patterns based on a rejection of mainstream society’s values

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11
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Functionalist theory of culture

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culture plays an integrative role for society. It strengthens solidarity

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12
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Critical theory of culture

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to understand culture, look at a given society’s type of economy

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13
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Who spoke of Cultural capital? What is it?

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Pierre Bourdieu: a body of knowledge and interpersonal skills that reflects one’s class position

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14
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Who spoke of and what is conspicuous consumption?

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Thorstein Veblen: an ostentatious display of wealth thats intended to trigger admiration or envy in others

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15
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Feminists say culture is

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a system that has historically favoured males and much of this inequality survives today

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16
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Symbolic interactionalists say culture

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is a system that is constantly reproduced and modified through the creative interaction of people

17
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postmodernists respond to culture as

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they tend to reject talk about culture and point instead to cultures and to discourses that reflect power and inequality

18
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Who said “religion is the opium of the masses”

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Marx

19
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Weber believed

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the type of economy may in fact reflect an earlier system of beliefs

20
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Calvinism

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a religious belief system found only in the west

21
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Calvinists believed in

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predestination