SOC, CULTURE AND IDENTITY Flashcards
(89 cards)
What are values
Beliefs and ideas society sees as important
what are norms?
expected patterns of behaviours due to values
Who conducted the study on gender norms
Mead
What are the two types of cultural diversity
1) intercultural - between cultures - East Asia and Western Europe
2) intracutlural - within cultures - ie religion in the UK
What is folk culture and examples?
Local communities - morris dancing and the lochness monster
High culture?
Elite culture and ‘closed’ - polo, opera and theatre
What does mass/popular/low culture do to society?
Dumbs it down - through the media
Marxist view on popular culture
Marcuse - distracts from capitalism
What does popular culture do for capitalism
Strinati - generates profits, though short lived
Who is the writer who believes we are all becoming ‘americanised’?
FLEW
How have we become a smaller place due to technology
Mcluhan - Global Village
Name the type of primary socialisation and studies associated with it
The family
- Oxana Malala
- Isabel Chicken Girl
- Genie
Studies associated to the peer groups
1) Judith Harris - most powerful
2) Sue Lees - peer pressure
Media studies
1) Adorno and Hortheimer - hyperdermic syringe
2) Mulvey - ‘eyes up’ media
3) Jock Young - Bulimic Society
Workplace
Waddington - canteen culture
Education
1) Bowles and Gintis - hidden curriculum
2) Davies and Moore - role allocation
3) Kelly and Colley - conform to gender domains
Religion
1) Modood
2) Chashmore and Traynor - religion as a source of strength
3) Jacobson - Pakistani islam due to social exclusion
Who says that we have fluid identities?
Bauman
Who am i?
Woodward
Who says we have stigmatised identies?
Goffman - undesirable and difficult to escape, being normal fails
The three types of capital
Bourdieu - Social, cultural and economic
Who says that the upper class is closed off?
MacIntosh + Mooney
Who talks about the expansion of the middle class in post modern society?
Fox
Established middle class?
Through birth