SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bourdieu, High Culture, Cultural Capital
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Culture is a system of behaviours, beliefs knowledges, practices, values and materials artifacts such as buildings, tools, and scarce items. Culture and its elements are contested: there is little agreement as to who and what being to a culture, even by those who being to a culture group. One of the points of contestation is authenticity or what is true to a particular culture. Types of cultures can be distinguished along two central oppositions. Has political and economic power and is able to impose its values language and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour on a given society. According to the author of your test is canada"s document culture described. Subculture: a group that shares a distinctive set of beliefs and practices that differ in some signi cant way form the dominant culture without directly opposing it. Groups organized around age gender, politics, or geography, or occupations or hobbies.
