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A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviours that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society?
What is a subculture?
Verbal and nonverbal
What are the two forms of language?
Commitment to freedom and peace and nonviolent change.
What is Canada's world image?
Activities usually patronised by the elite
What is high culture?
Because their values, norms, and appearance differ significantly from those of members of the dominant culture.
Why the Hutterites are considered a subculture?
Canada's two charter language groups
What are "two solitudes" in Canada?
Folkways, mores and laws
What are the main types of norms?
The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own
What is culture shock?
The joy of work, the primacy of the home, faithfulness, thriftiness, tradition, and humility.
What are their core values?
It can severely handicap the transmission of that culture.
What possible problems could have if language loss?
It can share meanings among people and help people communicate ideas.
What is the purpose of symbols?
Written down and involve specific punishments for violators.
What is formal norms?
Believe that there are many cultures within Canada alone
What is postmodern perspectives?
Differences
What makes them feel close to one another?
Core values of morality and humanitarianism may conflict with values of individual achievement and success.
What value may conflict with core values of morality and humanitarianism?
Language is a stabilising force in society and is an important means of cultural transmission.
The influence of language on society
The most common type of formal norms is law
What is the most common type of formal norms?
Cultural change take place in all societies. Chang occurs through discovery and invention and though diffusion, which is the transmission of culture from one society or group to another
What causes cultural change in societies?
The experiences of women might be quite different from those of men in the same subcultural setting.
What is the thing that most studies of subcultures did not acknowledge?