Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Relativism, Hutterite, Social Reproduction
5 Oct 2016
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Subcultures and countercultures: subcultures have divergent language, norms, beliefs, and/or values. Hutterites, vegans, punk rockers, sports team, frats/sorority: countercultures have opposing values. Differing perspectives on the relationship between values and norms: functionalist perspective. Durkheim norms and values are social facts that result in a collective conscience. Parsons norms and values work together to keep society running smoothly. Men & women had important roles to keep society functioning (women fertility, men bread winner: conflict perspective. There are contradictions between values and norms. Parsons" theory is clearly giving more power to the men. Ideal culture perfect body, hair, skin, clothes basically what we are taught to want (contrasts create tension) Real culture what actually happens and what is around us all the time: several values could have referred to . High culture vs. popular culture: high culture. Bourdieu social reproduction of classes through cultural and educational practices. Elite culture is identifiable through status symbols.
