ANP 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dominant Culture, Role Theory, Social Learning Theory
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Dominant culture cultural hegemony-the ideas of the dominant social group are accepted by all subculture a culture within a culture. -very different, but living in harmony w/ dominant culture counterculture a subculture in opposition. Depict society in static terms/depict society in dynamic terms. Focus on common interests/focus on interests that divide. View consensus as the basis of social unity/insist that social unity is an illusion resting on coersion. View gov. as an organ of the total society, functioning to promote social control and stability/view gov. as an intrument of oppression employed by ruling elites for their own benefit. Conditioning is a form of learning in which consequences of behavior determine the probability of its future occurence. -reinforcements:consequences of behavior that increase the chance that a behavior will occur. -observational learning (modeling or imitation): occurs when people reproduce the responses they observe in other people, either real or fictional.
