SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Saudade, Nationstates, Frantz Fanon
4 Oct 2017
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Values and beliefs: values are cultures standards for discerning what is good and just in society. Societies strive to put values into action is through rewards, sanctions and punishments. Sanctions are a form of social control a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms. Norms: how people are expected to behave in certain situations. Formal norms are established, written rules: mores are norms that embody the moral views and principles of a group. In modern times, popular culture is often expressed and spread via commercial media such as radio, television, movies, the music industry, publishers, and corporate-run websites. Subculture and counterculture: a subculture is just as it sounds a smaller cultural group within a larger culture; Sociologists distinguish subcultures from countercultures, which are a type of subculture that rejects so(cid:373)e of the la(cid:396)ge(cid:396) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e(cid:859)s (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d (cid:448)alues: cults, a word derived from culture, are also considered counterculture groups.
