SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protestant Work Ethic, Stamp Collecting, Dominant Culture
18 Oct 2016
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Cultural perspectives and organization culture - a system of beliefs, knowledge, practices, values and concrete materials including buildings, tools and sacred items. Everyone has a culture, most people have more than one! Culture involves traditions, but is not de ned by them. High culture vs popular and mass culture. Dominant - because of its political power, it can impose its values, language and ways of behaving onto the society. People in the cultural mainstream = dominants. The dominant culture is usually what is shown in the media/news. Central canada = dominant area (wealth, most population mass etc) Feminists = canadas dominant culture is male (hoc and parliament) Other factors to de ning the dominant culture include: Minority cultures - fall outside the cultural mainstream. Countercultures - groups that feel the power of the dominant culture and exist in opposition. Subcultures - different but not opposed to the mainstream culture. Subcultures have a more neutral contrast than countercultures.
