culture and identity terms Flashcards
impression management
goffman- front stage / back stage
can control how people view them as their identity is to put on a “performance”
hegemonic masculinity
legitimates men’s dominant position in society and justifies the subordination of the common male
cultural reproduction
ah lol process through which culture is reproduced across generations
habitus
the way that individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it
looking glass self
cooley
you act based on what you think people perceive you as (how others view us)
multiple identities
different cultural outlooks on life, differen cakes and beliefs
socialisation
passing on of normas and values
primary socialisation is the family
secondary socialisation is education, media or religion
dispora
people that originated from the same place but dispersed to different locations
social action
focus more on the individual rather than the whole of society
bottom up
interactionalist
moral panic
feeling of fear spread among many people who something threatens the society
stigmatised identity
goffman
undesirable identity that ruins the opportunity to have a normal identity
hyper male
exaggeration of male stereotypical behaviour, to emphasis on physical strength due to the crisis of masculinity
media saturated world
media image dominated and distort the way we see the world
structure
functionalism, marxism and feminism. look at the whole structure of society and that we are shaped
social construction
something created by society
