Definition
A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviours that differ in some sufficient way from that of the larger society.
What is subculture?
Athing that meaningfully represents something else.
What is symbols?
Established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct.
what is norm?
A set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and communicate with on another.
What is language?
Assumes that common language and shared values help produce consensus and harmony.
What is the functionlist perspective?
A group that strong rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyle.
What is counterculture?
Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particuar culture.
What is values?
State what behaviour is appropriate or acceptable.
what is the prescriptive norms?
Language is the keystone to culture because of the fact that language is the chief vehicle for understanding and experiencing one's culture.
What is laguage diversity?
Culture may be used by certain groups to maintain their privilege and exclude others from society's benefits.
what is the conflict perspectives?
The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own.
What is culture shock?
Equality and fairness in a democratic society; consultation and dialogue; accommodation and tolerance
What is the core canadian values?
Strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences in a particular culture.
what is mores?
Language can create and reinforce our perceptions about race and ethnicity by transmitting preconceived ideas about the superiority of one category of people over another.
What is the relationship between language and race?
Suggest that people create,maintain,and modify culture as they go about their everyday activities.
What is the symbolic interactionist perspectives:
The tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior, where as all other groups are seen as inferior.
What is ethnocentrism?
Help us communicate ideas because they express abstract concepts with visible objects.
What is symbols?
Infrmal norms or everyday cstoms that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture.
what is the folkways?
one of our most important human attribute, it allows us to share ourexperiences, feelings and knowledge.
what is language?
Believe that there are many cultures within canada alone.
What is the postmodern perspectives?