ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orthodox Marxism, Occupational Segregation, Social Reproduction

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Deborah Davidson

Document Summary

Culture is a powerful social force: leads to familiarity and comfort in social interaction or division and. Key to understanding how we relate to each other. The elements of social life that have meanings social actors interpret and can also convey: languages, symbols, discourses, texts, knowledge, values, attitudes, beliefs, norms, world views, folkways, art, music, ideas, and ideology. Used to refer to: how lives are structured, aesthetic productions, a set of economic institutions. Structure (different from culture: enduring patterns of social relations and social institutions through which society is organized and through which behaviour is carried out, e. g. , political and school systems, taxes, free market financial system. Culture in place and time (evolution: national cultures. Regional and local variation (e. g. , provinces, and city to city) Hegemony: a form of ideological control that legitimizes inequality, e. g. , participation and support for capitalism, culture can be shaped to maintain hegemony.