SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Riot Grrrl, Roland Barthes, Pierre Bourdieu
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System involving behavior, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and material such as buildings, tools, and sacred items. There is not total agreement as to what constitutes a culture even by those who belong to the group. People in different social locations experience culture differently. We all have culture, not only the elites. Carries the ideas of being true to a particular culture. Culture is dynamic: traditional practices change as a culture changes. Dominant culture culture that through its political and economic power is able to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behavior on a given society cultural mainstream. University graduate of european background between the ages of 25-55, in good health. Owns a home in a middle-class neighbourhood in ontario/quebec. A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some significant way, but are not necessarily opposed to, that of the dominant culture.