SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Incest, Flag Of Canada, Dominant Culture
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System of behaviors, beliefs, knowledges, practices, values, and material artifacts such as buildings, sacred items, and tools. There is little agreement as to who and what belongs to a culture, even by those who belong to a cultural group. One of the points of contestation is authenticity or what is true to a particular culture. Has political and economic power and is able to impose values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behavior on a given society. Group that shares a distinctive set of beliefs and practices that differ in some significant way from the dominant culture without directly opposing it. Groups organized around age, gender, politics, geography, occupations, hobbies . Groups that reject the elements of the dominant culture. Requires what pierre bourdieu called cultural capital: capital: A set of skills and knowledge needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someone as a person of high culture. Culture of the majority, especially those who don"t have power.
