a way of life for a socially connected group who share a similair view of the world and their place in it
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what is a norm?
a norm is a common form of behaviour which most people in society go along with. Norms can be written or unwritten. They are relative and underpin values
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what is a value?
a value is a general principle in society which most people in society agree upon. They are realtive
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what are subcultures?
a culture enjoyed by a small group of people with society (minority within the majority). They have their own norms and values and dedicated members usually express this through their style
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who studied the Teddy Boys?
Jefferson
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who studied Skinheads?
Clarke
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who studied punks?
Brake
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what is high culture?
high culture refers to the elite people in society who are a small but powerful group
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who argues high culture operates social closure as a key feature to their invisibility?
MacIntosh and Mooney
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what is popular culture?
refers to the entertainment industry eg TV, magazines etc. They popularise borrowed ideas from the high culture making them availabe to the masses.
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what does Strinati say?
the media is responsible for popluar culture in the uk as it tells us what goods we should be consuming
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what does Adorno say?
it stops creativity and challenges creative thinking
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what is global culture?
the idea that the world is getting smaller because its increasingly interconnected
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what does McLuhan say?
the world is becoming a global village and we're all citizens of the world
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what is consumer culture?
the increased availability of emphasis on the consumption of material goods and services
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what does Jock Young say?
we live in a bulimic society which encourages us to binge buy stuff we dont need
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what agent of formal social control is responsible for this?
the media; it encourages conspicuous consumption and a celebrity culture
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who can be seen as an example of this?
John Lydon whos face was used for a butter company and caused sales to increase by 85%
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what 4 features did Lury identify?
a wide range of consumer goods, availabilty of different ways to shop, shopping is a leisure pursuit and debt is a norm.
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what is cultural diversity?
this refersto all the different types of people embedded in society
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what does cultural diversity include?
gender, class, age, disability, ethincity and sexuality
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what has caused cultural diversity to occur?
globalisation and the spread of the media
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what did Parekh argue?
an example of cultural diversity can be seen through homosexuality
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what is multiculturalism?
differnt types of ethnic groups living side by side in society
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what does Barker state?
it seeks to celebrate diffrence, e.g faith in schools
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what is cultural hybridity?
refers to when 2 or more types of people/cultures are mixed together creating a new type of culture.
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what has occured to make this happen?
globalisation
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what do they adopt for this to happen?
elements of their ascribed culture and elements of their achieved culture (which is usually western)
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what did Joal find?
he focused on 2nd and 3rd generation British-Asians and found that they have a dual identity in which they inherit Asian identity and adopt a British one.
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what did Joal mean by a 'white mask'?
a dual identity resulted in Asian youths adopting a 'WHITE MASK' in order to interact with white peers at school but would still emphasize their culture when they felt it was necessary.
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what did Butler find?
she studied 3rd generation young Muslim women and found that they chose from a variety of possible identities.
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what examples can be used to show how young Muslim women can choose from a variety of possible identities?
some will choose to reflect their ascribed positon through wearing traditional dress, while others may adobt western ideas about education and carrers whilst retaining some respect for tradional religious ideas about the role of women.
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what is a norm?
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a norm is a common form of behaviour which most people in society go along with. Norms can be written or unwritten. They are relative and underpin values
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