SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antonio Gramsci, Neo-Marxism, Language Change
19 Jan 2018
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Culture vs structure: structural aspects of society are enduring patterns of social relations (sticks around for a long time and guides how societies operate [school system, taxes]) culture varies over time and places. Collective discourse would look as crime as a social problem. Hegemony is a form of ideological control the legitimizes and perpetuates inequality. it is a common sense understanding that inequality and domination by elites is natural and inevitable. Cultural functionalists base their claims using the work of emile durkheim. Culture is said to re ect the needs of a given society. Culture is viewed as a functional social production. Symbolic interactionalism: looks at culture as a product of individual interactions. Body language and signals are parts of communicative culture. individuals create and perpetrate culture. Suggests that we are all actors and follow the scripts of our lives and roles. Rules of social behaviour are learned through socialization, which is most important during childhood.
