Culture
The cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.
What is low culture?
A perspective that. rather than seein society as a homogeneous culture, recognizes cultural diversity while advocating for equal standing for all cultural traditions.
What is multiculturalism?
The way that non-material objects -like thoughts, actions, language and values- come together with material objects to form a way of life.
What is culture?
The cultural standards that people use to decide what's good or bad, what's right or wrong. They serve as the ideals and guidelines that we live by.
What are values?
The rules and expectations that guide behaviour within a society.
What are norms?
Popular culture is also known as this.
What is low culture?
Pushback on mainstream culture in an attempt to change how a society functions.
What is counter-culture?
Anything that carries a specific meaning that is recognized by people who share a culture.
What are symbols?
Specific ideas about what people think is true about the world.
What are beliefs?
The informal little rules that kind of go without saying.
What are folkways?
Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite.
What is high culture?
The belief that all of society is about the shared reality -the shared culture- that we create.
What are symbolic interactionist?
Are gestures and symbolic ways in which people can communicate.
Whaat is Non-verbal language?
These countries tend to value more individualism.
What are Western countries?
They are more official than folkways and tend to be codified or formalized as the stated rules and laws of a society.
What are MORES?
Cultural patterns that set apart a segment of a society's population.
What is subculture?
These countries tend to value more collectivism over individualism
What are Eastern countries?
Are behaviors that are never okay, no matter the circumstance and they violate your very sense of decency.
What are taboos?
A school of thought that re-centers historical and sociological study on the contributions of Africans and African-American.
What is Afrocentrism?