SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: High Culture, Ethnocentrism, Sociolinguistics
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Learned, represents way of life for a social group. Socially transmitted behaviour including ideas, values, customs, symbols: contested system, authenticity. The culture that through its political and economic power is able to impose on a society its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour. Minor cultural differences possessed by groups that are organized around occupations or hobbies, but which do not significantly oppose or challenge the dominant culture. Groups that reject selected elements of dominant culture. High culture: culture of the elite, distinct minority. Popular culture: culture of the majority, reflective of the dominant culture. Individuals who have little agency in their culture: agency. The ability to be creative with what the dominant culture, colonial power, or mass media has given them. Mass culture develops from exposure to the same media. Stereotypical cultural images that often distort reality and encourage people to act as though they exist: baudillard. Culture content: norms and sanctions (folkways, mores, taboos, values, symbols.
