Culture as a Construct
It's the term for interconnected identities, privileges, and power
What is intersectionality?
It's the term used to describe the absorption of one culture by a more dominant culture
What is assimilation?
She was arrested for refusing to leave the section of a movie theatre designated for white patrons only
Who is Viola Desmond?
Necklaces, photographs, and clothing can all be examples of cultural these
What are artifacts?
1. She
lived with and studied nonliterate peoples of Oceania
while
2. she
took her case to the United Nations
Who are Margaret Mead and Sandra Lovelace Nicholas?
He discussed how culture influences a people - and is now associated with cultural relativism
Who is Franz Boas?
They're the terms used to describe 1. disrespectful or exploitative use of a culture and 2. respectful and informed engagement with a culture
It's the term for two originally distinct cultures that co-exist within a society
What is biculturalism?
It's the term for a theory which views society as a complex system held up by various institutions and roles
What is structural functionalism?
It's a term by Marshall McLuhan to describe the way media technology has connected the world
What is Global Village?
They are the five types of cultural expression
What are artistic, spiritual, symbolic, philosophical, and functional?
They're the terms for 1. a dominant culture that often has a larger population and 2. a culture that often has a smaller population which feels pressure to assimilate
What are majority and minority cultures?
It's the term that describes maintaining one's original culture while also finding ways to engage with the culture of one's new society
What is integration?
Discussed by Stuart Hall, it's a term for how people receive a message and create their interpretation
What is decoding?
It's the term for a type of society that seeks complete equity and fairness
What is egalitarianism?
These two Canadians both experienced the internment of Japanese-Canadians during WWII
Who are Joy Kogawa and David Suzuki?
What is consumerism?
Along with economic production, this term is argued in conflict theory to be necessary for real power
What is economic production?
1. This movement
that used painting, literature, and other expressions to critique elements of early 20th-century culture
can be understood as
2. This type of event that changes culture
What is modernism and transformative?
They are the four type of social movements
What are alternative, reformative, redemptive, and revolutionary?
What are factors of cultural change?