theories of culture

• functionalism


  • social glue
  • social order
  • collective conscience
• functionalism eval


  • marxists/feminists: ignores conflict
• marxism


  • works for uc
  • capitalism
  • false needs + commodity fetishism
• gramsci


  • culture is hegemonic
• marxism eval


  • functionalism: culture benefits society
• feminism


  • culture controls females
  • stereotypes women
  • male gaze
• mcrobbie


  • magazines + media stereotypes
• feminism eval


  • postmodern feminists: media empowers women
• interactionism


  • people shape culture
• goffman


  • norms developed through interactions
• interactionism eval


  • nothing profound about society
• postmodernity

  • no superior culture
  • diversity
• strinati

  • mass culture is mass oppression
• postmodernism eval

  • damaging norms should be condemned
  • eg fgm