SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Subculture, Cultural Relativism, Sociolinguistics
18 Oct 2016
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Represents the way of life of a social group. Learned, socially transmitted behaviour, including values, customs and symbols. The culture that through its political power is able to impose its values, languages and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour onto a society. Subculture - a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs that differ, but are not opposed to the dominant culture. Counterculture - reject selected elements of the dominant culture. Re ects the majority of the dominant culture. Individuals who have little agency in their culture. Agency - availability to be creative with what the dominant culture, colonial power or mass media has given them. Cultural images or stereotypes (re)produced like commodities and associated with groups of people. Values - standards used by a culture to describe abstract concepts like goodness, beauty and justice. Norms - rules and standards of behaviour. Sanctions - rewards and punishments for behaviour.
