Culture
- Created by: HPickard
- Created on: 02-10-14 14:53
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- Culture
- Key words
- Values - beliefs about what is important
- Norms - acceptable behaviour in a situation
- Deviancy - breaking norms/values
- Hybrid - merging cultures to produce something entirely new
- Cultural Homogenisation - when cultures all become the same, e.g Westernisation
- Cultural Imperialism - when one cultures dominates another
- Subculture
- group of people within a culture that differentiate themselves in terms of norms and values
- e.g. chavs, gypsies, goths, etc.
- Youth subculture
- coping mechanism
- Functionalists - "way to deal with stressful transition to adulthood"
- "attempt to resist dominant values" - Cohen 1972
- Marxists - "resistance to capitalism"
- Types of culture
- Mass
- mass produced for the masses (opposite of folk)
- Folk
- simple and traditional
- dominant before urbanisation and the intro of pop and mass culture
- Popular
- culture of majority of society, what's popular in the media, music, fashion etc. Based on the latest trends
- High
- Sophisticated and refined
- Usually need certain type of education to be able to partake
- Low
- ordinary and unsophisticated
- takes aspects of high culture and makes it accessible to all
- Global
- aspects of culture that are spread worldwide
- Mass
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