SOCI-100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 59-64: Hutterite, Cultural Relativism, Subculture
13 Feb 2018
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Subcultures and countercultures: subculture: a group that can be picked out from society based on their traits different from the rest of society, language, norms, beliefs and values. Individuals can belong to more than one subculture: counterculture: a group that strongly opposes core aspects of the mainstream culture. How is canadian culture unique: symbol: object, image or event that represents a concept, high culture: activities shared mainly by the social elite, social symbols: material indicators of wealth and prestige ei. Bugatti"s: popular culture: everyday culture practices and products desired by the masses. John storey: described popular culture as an empty conceptual category that can be filled in many potentially conflicting ways. Distinguishing various social groups from the dominant one.
