SOC-1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, Dominant Culture, Subculture
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Foucault disciplinary power/ panopticon- it is when there is an authority power that can see all individuals in the system. Culture is a system of behaviours, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and material artifacts such as buildings, tools, and sacred items. Culture changes over a period of time. Culture and its elements are like a competition where there is an agreement whether who and what belongs to a culture, even by those who belongs to a cultural group. Authenticity is one of the points of contestation and what is true to a particular culture. Dominant culture is the culture that, through its political and economic power, is able to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviours on a given society. Subculture is the culture of a group of people who share a distinctive set of beliefs and practices that differ in some significant way from the dominant culture without directly opposing it.
