the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular person or society
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Subculture
a smaller culture held by a group of people within the main culture but with many aspects in common
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Global Culture
the way cultures in different countries of the world have become more alike, sharing increasingly similar consumer products and ways of life
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Folk Culture
refers to the culture of ordinary people, particularly those living in pre-industrial society. Examples include traditional folk songs & stories that have been handed down from generation to generation
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High Culture
specialist cultural products seen as having lasting artistic or literary values, which are particularly admired and approved of by intellectual elites and predominantly the upper and middle classes
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Mass/Low Culture
seen as less worthy than high or folk culture. It is a product of the mass media and includes popular films, TV soap operas and pop music. Critics of mass culture see it as destructive for the fabric of society
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Popular Culture
often used in a similar way to mass culture - includes any cultural products appreciated by large number of ordinary people, for example, TV programmes, mass-market films and popular fiction
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Globalisation
refers to the increased global interconnectedness of economic, cultural and political structures due to the exchange in views, products and ideas and other forms of culture
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Bricolage
used to mean the processes by which people acquire objects from across social divisions to create new cultural identities. In particular, it is a feature of subcultures such as the punk movement
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Dominant Culture
one whose values, language and ways of behaving are imposed on a subordinate culture(s)
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Status Frustration
developed by Albert Cohen in Delinquent Boys (1956), and used to explain working-class male delinquency as being a reaction formation towards middle-class values of success, as embodied in the school
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a smaller culture held by a group of people within the main culture but with many aspects in common
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Subculture
Card 3
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the way cultures in different countries of the world have become more alike, sharing increasingly similar consumer products and ways of life
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Card 4
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refers to the culture of ordinary people, particularly those living in pre-industrial society. Examples include traditional folk songs & stories that have been handed down from generation to generation
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Card 5
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specialist cultural products seen as having lasting artistic or literary values, which are particularly admired and approved of by intellectual elites and predominantly the upper and middle classes
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