Chapter 2 Culture And Media

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Dominant culture

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The culture of the most powerful group in society.

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Popular culture

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The beliefs, practices, and objects that are part of everyday traditions.

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Reflection hypothesis

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The idea that the mass media reflect the values of the general population.

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Mass media

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Channels of communication that are available to very wide segments of the population.

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Ethnomethodology

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A technique for studying human interaction by deliberately disrupting social norms and observing how individual’s attempt to restore normally.

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Cultural hegemony

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The pervasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society.

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Mores

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Strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior.

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Sapir whorf hypothesis

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A theory that language determines other aspects of culture.

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Material culture

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The objects created in a given society.

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Social sanctions

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Mechanisms of social control that enforce norms

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Subcultures

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The culture of groups whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture.

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Cultural capital

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Aka social Capitol cultural resources that are socially designated as being worthy and that give advantages to groups possessing such Capitol.

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Values

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The abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles.

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Countercultures

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Subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture.

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Non material culture

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The norms, laws, ideas, and beliefs of a group of people.

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Digital divide

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The persistence of inequality in people’s access to electronic information.

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Folkways

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The general standards of behavior adhered to by a group.

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Beliefs

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Shared ideas held collectively by people within a given culture.

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Culture lag

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The delay In cultural adjustments to changing social conditions.

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Culture shock

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The feeling of disorientation a that can come when one encounters a new or rapidly changed cultural situation.

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Social media

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The term used to refer to the vast networks of social interaction that new media have created.

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Language

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A set of symbols and rules that, when put together in a meaningful way, provides a complex communication system.

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Ethnocentrism

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The belief that ones in-group is superior to all out groups.

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Global culture

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The diffusion of a single culture throughout the world.

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Culture relativism

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The idea that something can be understood and judged only in relationship to the cultural context in which it appears.

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Taboos

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Those behaviors that bring the most serious sanctions.

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Norms

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The specific cultural expectations for how to act in a given situation.

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Symbols

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Things or behavior To which people give meanings

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Culture

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The complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society.

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Laws

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The written set of guidelines that define what is right and wrong in society.

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Cultural diffusion

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The transmission of cultural elements from one society or cultural group to another.

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Counterculture

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Subculture created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture

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Sub culture

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The culture whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture.