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Equality and fairness in a democratic society
Consultation and dialogue
Accommodation and tolerance
Support for diversity
Compassion and generosity
Canada's natural beauty
Canada's world imagination
What are the Core Canadian Values
Symbols, Language, Values, Norms
What are the components of culture?
a gap between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institution
What is cultural lag?
consists of classical music, opera, live theatre and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences, composed primarily of members of the upper middle and upper classes, who have the time, money, and knowledge assumed to be necessary for its appreciation
What is high cultures?
A central ingredient in human behavior
How sociologists regard culture?
Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable in a particular culture.
What are values?
Anything that meaningfully represents something else.
What is a symbol?
Nation: Sweden(include people who share a common culture)
Nation: Canada(included people who are dissimilar in regard to social characteristics)
What are examples of homogeneous societies and heterogeneous societies?
consists of activities, products, and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes.
What is popular cultures?
Functionalist perspectives
Conflict perspectives
Symbolic interactionist perspectives
Postmodern perspectives
Which sociological perspectives analyze cultures?
They eating separately
They do not accept TV/Vedio
They could leave school at a young age
What are some Hutterites tradition?
A set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another
what is Language?
a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural bellies and behaviors that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society.
a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles
What are the subculture and counterculture?
Rock concert, spectator sports, movies, television soap operas, Internet,etc.
What are some examples of the popular culture?
What is functionalist Perspective?
a temporary but widely copied activity followed enthusiastically by large numbers of people
What is fads?
The detention and revoke driving license are punishments for DUI in China
What is an example of Laws?
When people travel to another society, they may not know how to respond to that setting
What situation people may demonstrate when they meet culture shock?
fads, fashions, leisure activities
What are the three prevalent forms of popular culture?
engage in microlevel analysis that views society as the sum of all people's interaction.
What is Symbolic interaction perspectives focus on?
rules or behaviors or standard of conduct
What is norms?
One is informal norm or everyday custom that nay be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture.
What is different between Folkways ?
the tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior, whereas all other groups are seen as inferior.
What is ethnocentrism?
The extensive infusion of one nation's culture into other nations
What is cultural imperialism?
No single perspective can grasp the complexity and diversity of social world.
What does postmodern social theorists helps people in the examination of culture?