SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Frankfurt School, Cultural Lag

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas Macias

Document Summary

Mainstream american culture taken as a given - the work ethic ; assimilation . When used in sociology, culture was often very abstract - e. g. , constitutive symbolization or latent pattern maintenance . Ideology - a distortion of reality used to hide inequality or legitimate prejudice. Culture industry - used by elites to spread ideology through mass media, radio, tv, etc. Black military service during wwii - troops still segregated >> a kind of cognitive dissidence bc they fought for quality and for our rights, then returned and didn"t have them for themselves. Anti-colonialism - social movements for independence from colonial rule after wwii (globally - india, pakistan, asia, africa, etc. ) Culture - the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behavior. Includes both high culture and the mundane elements of everyday life. A socially transmitted toolkit of habits, skills and styles we use to construct our lives -