Culture Flash Cards

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Abott
Language is the most obvious set of symbols which society shares
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Marsh & Keating
Culture is all that is socially rather than biologically transmited
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KEY POINT 1
Society is made up of formal and informal instutions
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Key POINT 2
Culture dictates how institutions work by shaping BEHAVIOURAL rules and shaping social expectations about how people should act
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KIDD
Identity is our sense of self
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MORRIS
Biology shapes culture
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FUNCTIONALIST VIEW
Culture is good when there is VALUE CONSENSUS and people are in instutionalised communities
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CRITIQUE OF FUNCTIONALIST VIEW
Too much focus on value consensus and see's people less important than society and culture
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MARXIST VIEW
Ruling class ideology shapes cultural expectations
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FUNCTIONALIST VIEW
Culture is good when there is VALUE CONSENSUS and people are in instutionalised communities
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CRITIQUE OF FUNCTIONALIST VIEW
Too much focus on value consensus and see's people less important than society and culture
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MARXIST VIEW
Ruling class ideology shapes cultural expectations
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CRITIQUE OF MARXIST VIEW
Over emphasis of social class, rejection of GENDER, NATIONALITY being just as important
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MARSH & KEATING POINT 2
British culture is now globalised
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Culture is all that is socially rather than biologically transmited

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Marsh & Keating

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Society is made up of formal and informal instutions

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Card 4

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Culture dictates how institutions work by shaping BEHAVIOURAL rules and shaping social expectations about how people should act

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Card 5

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Identity is our sense of self

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