Sociology - Culture

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What is the definition of culture?
The way of living for a group of people in a given society
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What is the definition of values?
Things in life we place great importance
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What is the definition of norms?
The expected patterns of behaviour in a certain situation
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What is an example of a value?
Respect, Politeness, Privacy
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What is an example of a norm?
Being silent in a waiting room
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What did Enoch Powell suggest?
Immigration is bad and that there is a clash of cultures due to it
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What did Geroge Ritzer say?
Globalisation and Mcdonaldisation whereby we live in an exploited world
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What percentage of the British population is of an ethnic minority?
7%
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What is the definition of a subculture?
A group sharing ways of living that are different from the rest of society
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What are some examples of a subculture?
Mods, Rockers, Hippies, Travellers
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What is popular culture?
A culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than the elite
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What is low culture produced by?
The rich and powerful
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Who is typically a part of the low culture?
Working class - a majority of people
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Who is part of the high culture?
Upper middle classes
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What activites are typically high culture?
Hunting, Racing, Theatre
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What is the post modernist view on culture?
We live in a pick'n'mix society, there is no high and low culture and that we live in a consumer culture
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What is a consumer culture?
Whereby people value consumption as more important than lifestyle and activities
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What is cultural diversity?
When a variety of different ethnic groups live in one society
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What is cultural hybridity?
When cultures adopt features from other cultures as well as their own
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What did Gill suggest the emergence of?
Brasian
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