Culture and Identity

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  • Created on: 06-05-15 12:54

1. What is mean by subculture resistance

  • Ethnic minority groups that may not be simply different from the dominant culture but also in active opposition to it
  • ethnic minority groups and very different from dominant culture
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2. How does folk culture differ from mass culture

  • folk culture is based and created by local communities and specific to a local community and mass culture is specific to everyone; it's a global culture
  • folk culture is more small scale and mass culture is a bigger scale
  • mass culture is to do with one big community and folk culture is more local

3. What is a stigmatized Identity

  • Goffman states it's an identity that can be seen to be undesirable and demeaning towards the person.
  • something that stops you socializing
  • where you're not accepted in society
  • where you don't know where you stand with people

4. Explain the difference between dominant culture and subculture

  • subculture is different in norms and values compared to dominant culture
  • subculture is better known that dominant culture
  • dominant culture: the main culture in society, subculture: smaller groups in society with their own unique norms and values.
  • one is more domiant

5. What is socialization

  • Where you are told what to do
  • Learning the right things for your culture
  • Where you learn the norms and values of a society
  • Culture teaches norms and Values

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