SOCI 1001 Chapter 6.2: 6.2 sociology
13 Feb 2017
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Mainstream culture, subcultures, and countercultures: group style: the set of norms and practices that distinguishes one group from another. Different groups have different norms, and people are usually part of multiple groups. Communicates belonging and not belonging: mainstream culture: the most widely shared system of meaning and cultural tool kits in a society. Rock climbers, hunters, ballroom dancers, chess players. Same sex marriage, abortion rights, immigrant rights. The main battle lines of american politics are switching from economics to moral questions: culture wars: disagreements about the proper role of family and religious values in society. Assumes that there are two dominant cultures squaring off. Liberal culture and conservative culture: multiculturalism: beliefs or policies promoting the equal accommodation of different ethnic or cultural groups within a society. Very common in the us with large immigrant population: ethnocentrism: inability to understand or accept cultural practices different from one"s own.
