Cultures
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- Culture
- 4 main senses of culture
- Sometimes a state of mind. Someone become cultured if they move towards a goal of aspiration of human achievement.
- Seeing other societies a superior to others as well as individuals as superior to others.
- 'the collective body of arts and intellectual work within any one in society.'
- 'the whole way of life of a people' - Ralph Linton (1945)
- Types of culture
- High culture
- Refers to cultural creations that have a particularly high status.
- Arbiters of cultural taste as the epitome of the highest level of human creativity. Opera and artwork would be examples.
- Folk Culture
- Refers to the culture of ordinary people, particularly those living in pre-industrial societies.
- Singing traditional folk songs and traditional stories that have been passed down would be examples.
- Mass culture
- A product of industrial societies. Essentially a product of the mass media.
- Popular feature films, soap operas and recorded pop music are all examples.
- A product of industrial societies. Essentially a product of the mass media.
- Popular culture
- Includes any cultural products appreciated by large numbers of ordinary people with no great pretensions to cultural expertise.
- TV programmes, pop music, mass-market films like the Harry Potter series, and popular fiction like detective stories are all example.
- Subcultures
- Refers to 'groups of people that have something in common with each others which distinguishes them in a significant way from other social groups.' (Thornton, 1997)
- Communities that live close together and have a shared lifestyle, youth groups who share common musical tastes and enjoy the same leisure activities, people who share same religious beliefs are all examples.
- Global culture
- Implies that we are all becoming part of one all-embracing culture that affects all parts of the world.
- Cultural Diversity
- A concept relating to culturally-embedded differences in society.
- Parekh (2006)
- When members in society has distinct ways of life while still living broadly in dominant culture within a society.
- Same members of a society rebelling against central principles.
- Ethnic groups having long established communities adding diversity to the common way of life.
- Same members of a society rebelling against central principles.
- When members in society has distinct ways of life while still living broadly in dominant culture within a society.
- Parekh (2006)
- A concept relating to culturally-embedded differences in society.
- Consumer Culture
- Culture based on cultural and economic factors related to things we consume and use in society.
- Lury (1996)
- Factors of consumer culture
- Availability of wide range of consumer goods.
- Shopping is seen as a leisure pursuit.
- Being in debt is accepted as a social norm.
- Factors of consumer culture
- Hybrid Cultures
- Cultures merge together to make hybrid cultures which merge norms and values.
- High culture
- 4 main senses of culture
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