SY103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnic Nationalism, Subculture, Good Friday Agreement
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Chapter 3: identify how culture, socialization, social situations and social structure affect personal behaviour, ideas, choices and social opportunities, the difference between commonsense and the four main sociological perspectives. Culture refers to symbolic and learned behaviour (sense of similarity for a group of people) High culture: the sum of traditions, practices and languages i. judge in relation to the culture of the majority (pop culture) ii. one has culture (a possession) iii. social distinction. Ethnic culture: the sum of tradition: class system. judged in relation to, and often from the perspective of, the ethnic culture of the majority (ethnocentrism) i. one is cultural ( a description) ii. reduces personal identity: culture is relative, culture creates social differences, culture is exclusive. Symbols: anything the represents something else, such as a group ritual, a material object, or an immaterial dream. Coffee- tims is lower class specialty coffees- higher class. Norms :cultural expectations that differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate behaviours,i. e the right from wrong.
