HREQ 3890 Quiz: Test 1 Review

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Section 1: the relationship between power culture and ideology. Canadian society"s social stratification system can be studied analytically and systematically through the triangulation of culture, power, and ideology. Social ranking in society is an extension of cultural group interaction, embedded and enforced by power, and justified by ideology. Culture: is the complete way of life shared by people both material and non-material: is essential for our individual survival. Contributes to human social and physical survival: it provides the rules that guide human behavior, it accounts for pattern regularities of thoughts and ideas, provides a standard for right or wrong. Power: is the ability to make others do what you wish them to do, whether they like it or not, a system of domination: through the exercise of physical coercion, through the construction of ideologies. Ideology: a complex of ideas that attempt to explain, justify, legitimize, and perpetuate a specific set of circumstances.