SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Relativism, High Culture, Symbolic Interactionism
2 Jul 2016
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Values are culturally defined standards by which people judge desirability, goodness and beauty and which serve as braod guidelines for social liing. Values are braod pinciples that underlie beliefs, specific statements that people hold to be true. Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of it"s members, they may be either prescriptive or proscriptive. There are two special types of norms that were identified by william grahm. Folways: informal norms that suggest customary ways of behaving. Mores: norms that carry a strong sense of social importance. As we internalize norms, we resond critically to our onw behavior through or guilt. High culture refers to cultural pattern sthat distinguish a societys elite; in contrast, popular culture designates cutulral pattern sthat are widespread among a societ"s population. High culture is not inherently superior to popular culture. Subcultures are cultural patterns within a population whose values, norms, folkways or mores set them apart from the mainstream culture.
