SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnocentrism, Symbolic Culture, Cultural Relativism
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What is culture: the way we make sense of and give meanings to things, passed on from one generation to the next, stuart hall-> shared conceptual maps of meaning. Doesn"t challenge the dominant values sororities, sports culture. A society"s ________ are the expected behaviours that develop out of a society"s values: beliefs, norms, sanctions, gestures, both b and c. When a group has a distinctive way of looking at life, but at the same time their values and norms reflect the dominant culture of their society, the group would be considered a[n]: underground culture lomoar cpsd| 5490467. Doesn"t come into conflict with the bigger culture morals or values: counterculture, a subculture whos values are in opposition to the dominant culture, can be subversive of dominant culture or even try to change the dominat culture. What are they: not american, counterculture, subculture, super culture, none of the above.
