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What are the types of culture ?

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  • cultural diversity
  • cultural hybridity
  • subculture
  • high culture
  • popular culture
  • global culture
  • consumer culture
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What is diversity

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Variety or difference

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What is cultural diversity ?

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Difference and variety found In societies

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What are the two types of cultural diversity ?

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Intercultural and intracultural diversity

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What is intercultural diversity?

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Difference BETWEEN cultures

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What is intracultural diversity?

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Differences WITHIN cultures

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what is example of intercultural diversity ?

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Margret Mead, Hamar Tribe and the IK

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What are the examples of intracultural diversity?

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Regional diversity, social class diversity and ethnic diversity

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What is ethnic diversity ?

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  • 9% of UK population is made up of minority ethnic groups who remain commited to mother culture
  • language , food , costums and religion will subscribing to norms and values of British culture
  • south Asians wear Salwar kameez
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What is social class diversity ?

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Britain is a class socket made up of different social economic groups
- upper class , middle class and working class
- each with distinctive cultural characteristics

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What is regional diversity?

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Key regions of the UK
- northern and southern England, Scotland and wales
- with own traditions , costums and norms

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What is hybrid ?

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Cross between or merging of two or more things

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What is cultural hybridity ?

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Two or more cultures merge to create a new culture

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Example of cultural/ethnic hybridity ?

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  • Johal : white mask
  • Nayak: white wannabe
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What did Johal:white mask focus on ?

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Focused on second and third generation British-Asians

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What did Johal:white mask find ?

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Dual identity that inherit an Asian identity and adopt a British one

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What does Johal:white mask say Asian youths adopt ?

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Asian youth adopting a white mask to interact with White Peers at schools and college but emphasising cultural difference when necessary

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according to Johal: white mask what do Asian youth who Interact with white peers emphasise ?

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Cultural differences when feel it is necessary

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What do British-Asian adopt according to Johal:white mask ?

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Hybrid identities

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Johal: white mask example of global culture in music

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Young British Asian listen to Bhangra music a mixture of Punjabi music with Western Rythm

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What is white wannabe according to Nayak ?

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White British males who dress,act and speak in way that influenced black hip hop culture

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Example of multicultural London English ?

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Jafaican style of accent and speech used in london by white people influenced by African Caribbean speech and accents

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What is Nayak: white wannabe , Jafacian a product of ?

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Mixed groups of white and black young people influence each other

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What did Nayak: white wannabe Mixed groups of white and black young people influence each other create ?

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Hybrid dialect

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What is a subculture?
- A culture within a culture- smaller grouping of people - a group who share distinctive norms and values which differ from wider culture
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What are some examples of subcultures?
Emo , punks , skaters
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What is the key study of subculture ?
Anti-school subculture: Wills
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What was Paul Willis’ study ?
- Paul Willis studied/focused on working class lads - saw themselves as school failures but turned it around to a good thing - messing around in school as knew they would be working in the factory like fathers so don’t have value of education - did a follow up and saw nothing changed still messing around
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Who developed the four features of subculture ?
Paul Hodkinson
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What was the four features of a subculture by Paul Hodkinson ?
1. Commitment 2. Identity 3. Distinctivess 4. Autonomy
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What is commitment?
Members must be commited to the point that subculture influence pattern everyday life e.g free time, shopping, going out
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What is identity ?
Members share a sense of connection with group insiders and share aspect of identity and this separates the insider from the outsiders
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What is distinctiveness ?
Sense of taste, ideas or values which is different from those of other groups and consistent with the group
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What is autonomy ?
Subculture are independent and self governing so do not rely on mainstream culture to produce what is needed for the group to function
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What is high culture ?
Refers to the cultural practise that are associated with the powerful, wealthy, elite and upper social classes
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How can high culture been seen as ?
Ween as superior to popular culture or culture of the masses
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what are the examples of a high culture ?
- opera - ballerina - theatre - art e.g Da Vinci - Literature e.g Charles Dickens
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What are the studies for high culture ?
- the cultural importance of high culture - the superiority of high culture: FRANK & QUEENIE LEAVIS
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according to the cultural importance of high culture why does the supporters of high culture see these activities as special ?
believed that these activities are special because they represent the nations cultural heritage
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according to the culture importance of high culture due to the supporters of the high cultures seeing these activities as special what examples enforce how special it is ?
- this is why society invest millions of pounds into institutions such as museums and art galleries - sky art , newspapers devote much time and space to high culture
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what are the reasons Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture wanted to defend high culture?
- the work in the canon is timeless - it has humanising influence - is high culture elitist ?
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture what is the work in the canon is timeless ?
they have stood the test of time. the values lie within the work themselves. this is called intrinsic value
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what was opera, classical music, classical literature often referred as ?
the canon
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture why does the work in the cannon as timeless have intrinsic value ?
they stood the test of time and the values lie within the works themselves
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture why does high culture have a humanising influence ?
readers of classical work will be rewarded for putting their efforts in understanding them
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to it has a humanising influence what will be more difficult to understand ?
works in the canon
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to it has a humanising influence despite works in canon being difficult to understand why is it still good to study it ?
but by studying them we better and educate ourselves
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to is high culture elitist who is high culture associated with ?
small elite in society
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to is high culture elitist : what do the small elite in society operate ?
operate a social closure
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to is high culture elitist : what is social closure ?
not allowing entry of 'outsiders'
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to is high culture elitist : why do the elites operate a social closure ?
so elites can continue to maintain high culture elite and exclusive position
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Frank and Queenie Leavis: the superiority of high culture according to is high culture elitist : why is high culture limiting their accessibility to the average person ?
expensive and cultural products require a high level of education audience to appreciate their value

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