SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Consumerism, Canadian Identity, Cultural Relativism
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The sum practices, language, symbols, beliefs, values, ideologies, and material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems. Passed on from one generation to the next. Society made up of people, culture is made up of ideas, behaviours, and material possessions. How we think, how we act, what we know. Core norms that most believe are essential for survival in their group. Strongest norms, cause revulsion and severe punishment. Multiculturalism: policy to enhance ethnic and racial diversity. Fashion it to suit and diverse and change needs. Ethnic marginalization and ethnic stratification particularly when there is unequal distribution of power in canadian society. Emphasizes differences, divisive, subverts social cohesion, and canadian identity. Cultural relativism potentially leads to a clash of cultures in canada. Subculture: set of distinctive values, norms, practices within a large culture. Counterculture: subversive subculture that opposes dominant values and seeks to replace them.
