Culture

Question 1

What is the term “Old Stock Canadians”

Answer 1

White settlers from Britain and France who were involved in the early displacement and colonization of Canada

Question 2

What did Dr. Mark Campbell say about hip hop artists

Answer 2

Toronto highlights how hip hop artists aim to challenge “closed systems of Canadian identity that produce forms of un-belonging to the nation”

Question 3

What is and example of micro-aggressions

Answer 3

asking someone “where are you from”. This questions is a constant reminder that they to not belong in Canada and must be from somewhere else

Question 4

What is material culture

Answer 4

all physical items with social meanings in a given culture (food, art, tools, etc)

Question 5

What is non-material culture

Answer 5

ideas and behaviours associated with a given culture (beliefs, values, assumptions)

Question 6

What did Durkheim note when writing about religion

Answer 6

“it is not merely a system of practices, but also a system of ideas whose object is to explain the world”

Question 7

What are the three key moments in the social constriction of reality

Answer 7

1. externalism
2. objectification
3. internalization

Question 8

What is externalism

Answer 8

the process of society being human product

Question 9

what is objectification

Answer 9

the process of society being an object reality (can be measured)

Question 10

what is internalization

Answer 10

the process of people becoming a social product

Question 11

what are folkways

Answer 11

an informal norm based on tradition that are loosely in forced

Question 12

what are mores

Answer 12

norms that carry a greater moral significance and often embody fundamental values of a culture (laws against theft or vandalism)

Question 13

what is a taboo

Answer 13

most serious norm that carries the greatest moral significance (incest, cannibalism)

Question 14

what is ethnocentrism

Answer 14

when you use your own culture as a standard to judge other cultures, you believe you ways of doing are superior to other cultures

Question 15

what is cultural relativism

Answer 15

the principal of understanding cultures on their own terms

Question 16

what are subcultures

Answer 16

cultures within a culture that have their own social norms

Question 17

what are countercultures

Answer 17

cultures within a culture that aim to challenge existing norms, values, beliefs, and practices, of elite and mass culture

Question 18

what is social reproduction

Answer 18

the process by which members of the elite pass along their money connections, and elite forms of knowledge to future generations

Question 19

Symbols regarding culture

Answer 19

anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

Question 20

key values of Canadian culture

Answer 20

• Democracy and human rights
• health care system
• support for the environment
• support for diversity
• value of immigration

Question 21

what is value conflict

Answer 21

separate values that contradict each other

ex. protecting the environment but also wanting an economic system with progressive growth

Question 22

William Graham Sumner believed that some norms were more important than others

Answer 22

1. Mores (taboos)
2. folkways (appropriate greetings)
3. laws (criminal code)

Question 23

What’s the difference between ideals and real culture

Answer 23

real culture is what actually happens, ideals are what we expect to happen
ex. 38% of Canadians admit to texting and driving

Question 24

explain structural-functional theory

Answer 24

• considers values the core of a culture, this can help us understand an unfamiliar way of life
• strong religious beliefs sometimes prevent compromise
• shows how culture operates to meet human needs yet by emphasizing a societies dominant social patterns in ignores cultural diversity

Question 25

explain social-conflict theory

Answer 25

• any cultural trait will benefit certain people while putting others down
• ties Canadas dominant culture values to our countries capitalist economy
• the culture of capitalism encourages us to believe its something we couldn’t live without

Question 26

What is materialism

Answer 26

a society’s system of material production has a powerful effect on the rest of a culture

Question 27

explain feminist theory

Answer 27

culture is gendered - our way of life reflects the ways in which our society defines what is male as more important than what is female, our way of life defines male domination as natural