SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman, Gender Inequality, Impression Management
6 Jun 2018
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Week 3 - Culture and Socialization
Culture
• a system of behavior, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and concrete materials
• Nonmaterial culture
• Material culture
• Culture is contested
• Androcentric or sexist language
Dominant culture
• The culture of the dominant group
• Ability to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behavior
• Political and economic power
• Conflict Theory
o Consumer culture/consumerism
▪ Benefit some groups while hurting others
o Feminist theory: dominant culture → male
Subcultures
• A group that shares the culture elements of the larger society but also has its own
distinctive values, beliefs, norms, style of dress and behavior patterns
• Do not directly oppose the dominant culture
• Ethnic identity , religion, hobby, occupation
Counterculture
• Reject conventional norms and values and adopts alternative ones
• Actively challenge the dominant culture in different ways
High Culture and Popular Culture
• High culture
o High-status group preferences, tastes, and norms.
o Sign of prestige
o Exaples: fie arts, lassial usi, ad other :highro” oers
o Culture capital
▪ A body of knowledge and interpersonal skills that help people get
ahead socially.
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Document Summary
Culture: a system of behavior, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, and concrete materials, nonmaterial culture, material culture, culture is contested, androcentric or sexist language. Counterculture: reject conventional norms and values and adopts alternative ones, actively challenge the dominant culture in different ways. Socialization: the lifelong social learning a person undergoes to become a capable member of society, through social interaction with others, and in response to social pressures. Individuals develop an identity, self-awareness through interactions: social mobility, a change in social status where individuals or families move from one strata to another, movement may be vertical or horizontal across generations or within a generation. The socialization process: occurs both at the micro and macro levels, primary socialization, first stage in the socialization process, during your childhood, in the context of the family, significant others. Institutions help maintain the values and norms of society: the transmission of norms and values through socialization, conflict theory.
