Lesson 4: Theoretical Perspective on Culture

• Top Trends: Multi-task due to speedy technology

  Speeding Up
• Top Trends: Resulting in stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, work life imbalance, etc.


  Speeding Up
• Top Trends: Age, gender, income, education, family life cycle, religion, and socioeconomic status

  Demographic Change
• Top Trends: Spread of terrorism

  Anxiety
• Top Trends: Globalization is the huge trends. Future will then be locals. If we all run out of resources we will adopt more out local way. 


  Global and Local
• Top Trends: We work harder for a long period of time but we still can't buy happiness

  Happiness
• Top Trends: We are subjected to multiple truths

  Authenticity
• Functionalist views society as a system in which all parts work together to be able to create a whole society. Studies the culture in terms of values.
• Conflict Theories Views view social structure as:

  • Inherently unequal
  • Power, class
  • Gender, race, age
• Conflict Theory Views sees issue of privilege. SC and women struggle to protect their rights.
• Conflict Theory Views sees the effect of economic production and materialism. Tells the people with less power less ability to adapt to cultural change.
• Symbolic Interactionism is concerned with the face-to-face interactions between members of the society. Sees the culture is maintained by the people interacting and interpreting each other's action.