UTM115H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-10: Cooperativeness, Assertiveness, Minority Group
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Within most cultures, there are groups of people who differ from the general societal culture in some custom, habit, or practice. These groups are sometimes called minorities, subcultures, or co-cultures. In this book, the term micro culture is used to refer to those identifiable groups of people who share the set of values, beliefs, and behaviors of the macro culture. Micro culture includes different types of groups that could be classified by age, class, geographic region, sexual preference, disability (e. g. , the deaf), ethnicity, race, size, or even occupation. Other traits that can distinguish a micro cultural group include language or distinctive dress habits: is that micro cultural group membership is usually not voluntary. Though not always, people are generally born into their micro culture. The muted group theory is that micro cultural groups" speech and writing are not valued by the dominant cultural group.
