Symbol & Language
Anything that meaningfully represents something else.
what is Symbol?
Popular Culture consists of activities,products,and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes
What is Popular Culture?
farms (also called "colonies"）
Where the Hutterites live on?
Established rules of behavior or standard of conduct
Norms
Culture encompasses the knowledge, language, values, and customs passed from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
What is culture?
A set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another.
What is language?
Object /Activity /Personality/ Idea fads
What are the different types of fads from popular culture?
Because their values,norms,and appearance differ significantly from those of members of the dominant culture.
Why the Hutterites are considered a subculture?
Classical music, opera, ballet and other activities.
Examples of high culture
Material and nonmaterial expressions
What are two expressions of culture?
Flags, Animals,colour.....etc.
examples of Symbols
Justin Bieber, Rihanna ,Cristiano Ronaldo
What are the examples of personality fads?
The joy of work, the primacy of the home, faithfulness, thriftiness, tradition and humility.
What is the core value about the Hutterites?
Laws
Formal norms
Folkways, mores and laws
What are the main types of norms?
boys wearing blue,girls wearing pink
Symbols can affect our thoughts about gender
the link between culture and social class.
What is focus of popular culture?
Hutterite life is centred on the community rather than on the individual.
What is the life style of the Hutterites?
state what behaviour is inappropriate or unacceptable.
What is Proscriptive norms ?
a group that strong rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeeks alternative lifestyles.
What is counterculture?
one of our most important human attribute. It allows to share our own experience,feelings and knowledge.
language
popular culture is assumed to be far more widespread and accessible to everyone
What is "mass culture" ?
They do not wish to be absorbed into the dominant culture,and their colonies are usually located far from towns,cities,and highways.
Why the Hutterites wish to maintain their separatist status?
Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture.
What is folkways?
The assumption that one's own culture is superior to other cultures
What is ethnocentrism?