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What do we understand by culture?
The shared lens of values and beliefs through which we view reality.
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What does conflict theory focus on?
Concerned with the unequal distribution of wealth and power in society.
Frequent conflicts over control. |
What do we understand by socialization?
The lifelong social learning of norms, values, and ideologies that allows a person to become a member of society and interact with others.
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What is high culture and popular culture?
High culture- High-income group preferences, tastes, and norms. Examples: fine arts, ballet, classical music...
Popular culture- The culture of "ordinary" people: the objects, preferences, and tastes that are widespread in society. |
What does functionalism focus on?
Society as a set of parts that work together to preserve social life and stability.
Each part plays an essential and complementary role. Institutions have manifest and latent functions. |
Mention three agents of socialization.
Family
School Church Workplace |
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What is subculture and counterculture?
Subculture- A group that shares the cultural elements of the larger society but also has its own distinctions values, beliefs, norms, style of dress and behavior patterns.
Counterculture- A subculture that rejects conventional norms and values and adopts alternative ones. |
How would feminism approach gender?
Gender as a social construct
Those designated males have more privileges and power than women Gender inequality and male domination Gender roles and how they are learned |
What is anticipatory socialization? Give an example
The process in which someone adopts the values and behaviours of a group to which they do not yet belong but that they aspire to join.
Example: wearing a white coat when studying medicine, bachelorette parties... |
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What is cultural relativism?
The principle that we should judge a culture and its beliefs and values by the culture itself, not another culture.
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How would indigenous theory approach total institutions?
Residential schools, domination, killing the Indian in the child, colonization
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What is social construction? Are social constructions bad?
Things/ideas/behaviours/social instritutions forged through social processes, produced through human action.
No, they are not bad!! |
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What is cultural capital?
A body of knowledge and social skills that help people get ahead socially. Often includes learning about and taking part in high culture.
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What would symbolic interaccionism say about identity and social media?
What is the looking-glass self?
We define ourselves in the context of our socialization, interactions with other online or offline
Looking-glass self - Feedback from others is integrated into my concept of self |
Explain the concept of resocialization, how it occurs inside total institutions and give an example.
A process that involves a replacement of a person's values, beliefs, and sense of self.
Total institutions erase the existing 'self', the person's identity and then reconstruct it to meet the institutions goals. Example: jail, residential school, drug rehabilitation centers... |
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