CULTURE AND IDENTITY

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    • WHAT IS A SUBCULTURE?
      minority social groups that generally subscribe to the norms and values of mainstream culture.
      e.g. ethnic minorities subscribing to n&vs but having beliefs from own ethnic backgrounds.
    • FOLK CULTURE
      • customs of a traditional rural country emerged from lived experiences.
      • Genuine and authentic.
      e.g. maypole tradition.
      A03 DUE TO GLOBALISATION, PEOPLE ARE LOSING CULTURAL VALUES AS NOT MANY PEOPLE TAKE PART.
    • HIGH CULTURE
      • products/practices of a cultuer which is seen as intellectually and aesthetically superior.
      e.g. enjoying ballet, reading poetry, literature.
      A03 - MARXISTS BELIEVE HIGH CULTURE PROMOTES CAPITALISM AND ENFORCES CULTURAL HOMOGENISATION
    • LOW CULTURE
      • things only working class would do.
      e.g going to football instead of horse racing. Fast fashion e.g. Primark.
    • MASS CULTURE
      • cultural products/practices which don't aspire to higher intellectuality.
      • manufactured by capitalists.
      e.g. watching love island, pop music, TV soaps, Cinema
    • POPULAR CULTURE
      • set of practices, beliefs and objects that emboy the most broadly shared meanings of a social systems.
      • manufactured by entrepreneurs.
      e.g. pop music, x factor, box office films.
      A03 - MASS CULTURE IS USED AS A MORE NEGATIVE TERM FOR POPULAR CULTURE AS MASS CULTURE IS FORMULAIC AND SIMPLISTIC. KEEPS PEOPLE HAPPY AND STUPID.
    • GLOBAL CULTURE
      • domestic cultures of societies no longer in isolation.
      • world influenced by globalisation.
      e.g. mass tourism, british shops advertised globally, US films/shows.
    • FUNCTIONALISM
      • Primary socialistion of children in the family helps enforce value consensus. What's good in society and social cohesion (society in harmony).
      • DURKHEIM - EDUCATION AS TRANSITION OF SOCIETY'S N&VS. necessary to produce social solidarity.
      • DURKHEIM - RELIGION'S MAIN FUNCTION IS TO SOCIALISE SOCIETY INTO VALUE CONSENSUS BY INVESTING VALUES WITH SACRED QUALITY. E.g. religious moral codes, regulating behaviour regarding crime, sex and obligation to others.
    • FUNCTIONALISM EVALUATIONS
      • PARSONS criticised for being too deterministic, ignores socialisation being a two way process.
      • DURKHEIM assumes societies have a shared culture. UK is multicultural, it is debatable ehether there is a single set of norms and values.
    • MARXISTS AND NEO MARXISTS APPROACH ON FAMILY
      ALTHUSSER - FAMILY SEEN AS SERVING THE FUNCTIONS OF AN IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUS BY SOCIALISING PRO-CAPITALIST IDEOLOGIES AND OWN IDEOLOGIES TO MAINTAIN FAMILY PATTERNS.
      e.g. accepting gender roles, it's natural for men and women to get married and engage in seperate roles/jobs at home. Socialised to accept hierarchies in home and at school it's natural and unchangeable.
      A03- FEMINISTS argue that ALTHUSSER ignores that a family ideology supports patriarchy as it suggests men and women should have different roles in society and family.
    • FEMINIST VIEWS ON FAMILY
      oppresses women and reproduces patriarchy.
      Gender inequality is created by society.
      • MARXIST FEMINISTS - NUCLEAR FAMILY MEETS THE NEEDS OF CAPITALISM AND REPRODUCES MAINTENANCE OF CLASS INEQUALITY. BENEFITS POWERFUL AT EXPENSE OF W/C AND WOMEN.
      • RADICAL FEMINISTS - MODERN SOCIETIES/FAMILIES ARE CHARACTERISED BY PATRIARCHY, MEN EXERCISE POWER OVER WOMEN AND CHILDREN. WOMEN DO THE MOST WORK BUT MEN GET THE MOST BENEFIT.
    • EVALUATIONS OF FEMINIST VIEWS ON FAMILY
      • Feminists asssume that families are manipulated by the structure of society to reproduce and reinforce patriarchy.
      • POST MODERNISTS argue that we have a choice in creafting family relationships
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