Intro to core themes Flashcards

Question

What are values?

Answer 1

These are what people consider to be right or wrong in the world. Appropriate forms of behaviour and action are implied eg. privacy.

Answer 2

This culture is seen to have artistic and/or intellectual value, for example fine art, classical music, opera, and literature. It refers to activities with lasting value, aimed at upper-class and middle-class groups, interested in new ideas, critical discussion and analysis. It is associated with the rich and powerful and is seen by some as superior.

Answer 3

This culture refers to cultural products and pursuits characterised by their production for, and consumption by, the masses. It is associated with relatively poorer and less-powerful groups of people.

Answer 4

This culture involves social status, values and activities being centred on buying goods or services. A large part of what you do, what you value and how you are defined revolves around buying and doing stuff.

Answer 5

Both low culture and popular culture are forms of mass culture. It is manufactured, passive, inauthentic. It consists of trivial products, dumbed down to appeal to as many people as possible, which demand little critical thought, analysis or discussion, and are of no lasting artistic value. It is simple, undemanding, easy-to-understand entertainment.

Answer 6

This culture might include extensive coverage of celebrities and lifestyles, tabloid newspapers, tv soaps and reality shows, video games, films for the mass market and books for reading on the beach. It is passive and unchallenging, often fairly mindless entertainment, aimed at the masses. Some see it as shallow.

Answer 7

Local customs and beliefs that directly reflect ordinary people’s lives and experiences, such as songs and stories that are handed down from one generation to the next. It is traditional and authentic rather than manufactured.

Answer 8

One, all-embracing culture that affects everyone everywhere. For example, McDonald's is a worldwide business, growing at a colossal speed. This weakens local cultures, as local food outlets close in the face of competition. The logos of companies like Apple, Starbucks, and Nike are global brands that can be recognized across the world.

Answer 9

Social groups that differ from the dominant culture in terms of language, dress, music, norms and values. They are not completly different from other members of society and sharing much in common with their peers who don't belong to the subculture.

Answer 10

Shows how culture varies from one society to the next.

Answer 11

Refers to how individuals see and define themselves and how other people see and define them.

Answer 12

Ethnicity Religion Region of home Gender Age Education Health

Answer 13

Socially constructed-it's created by the socialisation process and the interpretations of other peoples action. Certain things such as race are only significant as people have given them significance.

Answer 14

Important but so is the influence of society and sometimes someones identity may be stigmatised and the identity an individual wants to assert may not be the one others accept.

Answer 15

A dominant characteristic that overrides other parts of an individuals identity. If others see you based on this master status regardless of what you want to portray it will be difficult to assert your chosen identity.

Answer 16

Over time and you may detach yourself from past identities. It influences the friends you have and the communities/groups which relate to you.