Chapter 3 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Agency
the ability of ‘the people’ to be creative or productive with what colonial power, a dominant culture, or an instrument of mass media has given them.
Algonquian
Languages by what together make up the largest Aboriginal language family in Canada and the United States, have no grammatically mandated gender, in either the French or the English sense.
Authenticity
Carries the idea of being true to a particular culture, yet think of how broadly the word ‘authentic’ can be applied and understood
Contested
Describing a practice whose moral goodness or badness, normalcy or deviance, or general predominance is disputed by some members of society
Counterculture
Groups that feel the power of the dominant culture and exist in opposition to it. e.g. hipsters
Cultural Capital
Refers to the knowledge and skills needed to acquire the sophisticated tastes that mark someone as a person of high culture. The more cultural capital one has, the ‘higher’ their cultural capital.
Cultural Relativism
An approach to studying the context of an aspect of another culture. It can be spoken of as existing at two levels. One is the level of understanding.
Cultural Studies
Draw on both the social sciences and the humanities to cast light on the significance of, and meanings expressed in, popular culture, a topic that previously had been mostly neglected by academics
Culture
A system of behaviour, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, ad concrete materials including buildings, tools, and sacred items
Decipherment
The process of looking in a text for the definitive interpretation for the intent (conscious or unconscious) of the culture industry in creating the text.
Dialect
A variety of language, a version that is perhaps different from others in terms of pronunciation.
Dominant Culture
One that, through its political and economic power, is able to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving and interpreting behaviour on a given society
Dominants
People closely linked with the cultural mainstream are sometimes referred to as dominants
Ethnocentrism
Occurs when someone holds up one culture (usually their own) as the standard by which all cultures are judged.
Eurocentrism
Involves taking a broadly defined “European” (Western and Northern Europe as well as North America) position to address others, and assuming that the audience shares (or would like to share) that position.
Folkways
Norms that govern day-to-day matters. These are norms one ‘should not’ violate. Otherwise known as ‘etiquette’. Folkways can change. e.g double-dipping chips or eating out of the garbage
High Culture
Is the culture of the elite, a distinct minority. Sometimes referred to as ‘elite culture’
Hijab
A veil symbolic in the muslim culture.
Indigeneity
The ends-result of the process of refashioning indigenous identities according to alternative knowledges rather than those traditionally produced by outsider experts.
Indo-European
The family of languages that includes almost all the languages of Europe plus Farsi (Irnian) and the languages of Pakistan and northern India–all impose gender grammatically in some ways.
Linguistic Determinism (Causation)
The principle suggests that the way each of us views and understands the world is shaped by the language we speak. Like theories of biological or social determinism,
Mass Culture
The term for popular culture used by those who feel that people have little to no agency.
Mores
Taken much more seriously than folkways. You ‘must not’ violate them. Mores can change. The perception of women with tattoos has changed from how it was. e.g. rape, killing, and vandalism
Negative Sanction
A reaction designed to tell offenders that have violated a norm. e.g. glad, eye roll, library fine
