SYG 2000 Module 1 Exam |81
Questions and Answers Distinction
Rated
Media, democracy, and the internet - -We must recognize the role the media
(and now the internet) play in facilitating democracy and the government.
Amplifying the voice of public opinion, facilitating the spread of news, etc.
- The media as a cultural system - -They set the context for making events
in the world intelligible. They do this by helping construct a community and a
public conversation.
- The medium is the message - -McLuhan; different media encourage
different ways of communicating, of organizing power, and of centralizing or
decentralizing social activity.
- Public sphere - -A social space—physical, virtual, or theoretical—where
private citizens can come together as a public body to discuss and express
opinions about matters of general interest.
- Culture Industry - -The production for profit of popular music, books,
television, social media, and other types of mass-culture products produced
by capitalist enterprises
- The conditions of culture production - -Economics or money only partly
explains. Concerted cultivation is the concept by Lareau to explain
dichotomous cultural approaches that lead to class reproduction. Class is
reproduced through culture.
- Cultural capital - -Refers to our education, tastes, cultural knowledge, and
our ability to display sophistication or lack thereof in speech, manners, and
other everyday acts.
- Symbols - -anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by
people who share a culture
- Cultural diffusion - -Refers to the spread of cultural traits from one group
to another, which includes material and nonmaterial culture.
- culture leveling - -The process by which cultures become similar to one
another, especially by which Western culture is diffused into other cultures.
, - Culture war - -a conflict pitting a subculture or counterculture against the
dominant culture. Or a conflict between dominant groups within a society.
- Subcultures - -Subcultures are groups of people who accept much of the
dominant culture but are set apart from it by one or more culturally
significant characteristics. Subculture values, beliefs, and practices may
differ from larger group or society.
- Countercultures - -Groups that not only differ from the dominant culture
but also adhere to norms and values that may be incompatible with those of
the dominant culture
- Cultural universal - -refers to values, norms, or other cultural traits that
are found in all cultures. However, the ways of doing them are diverse.
- Pluralistic society - -a society made up of many different groups
- Ethnocentrism - -predicated on the idea that a given culture's norms,
traditions, values, material objects are better than another. It becomes the
basis through which other cultures are judged.
- Cultural relativism - -The idea that aspects of a given culture need to be
understood within the context of that culture. Very little of a culture is
universal, if at all
- Ideal vs. Real Culture - -Ideal culture refers to the norms and values of a
society of what we believe people do or should do
Real culture refers to what people actually think and do in their everyday
lives
- Value clash - -Values clash when there are core values that are challenged
and elicit strong resistance by those who hold them
- Value contradictions - -exists when groups hold opposing incompatible
values which then establish a contradiction.
- Core values - -the values that are central to a group, those around which it
builds a common identity
- Culture lag - -Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind
technological innovations
- Mainstream culture - -a type of culture that is accepted by or involving
most people in a society
Questions and Answers Distinction
Rated
Media, democracy, and the internet - -We must recognize the role the media
(and now the internet) play in facilitating democracy and the government.
Amplifying the voice of public opinion, facilitating the spread of news, etc.
- The media as a cultural system - -They set the context for making events
in the world intelligible. They do this by helping construct a community and a
public conversation.
- The medium is the message - -McLuhan; different media encourage
different ways of communicating, of organizing power, and of centralizing or
decentralizing social activity.
- Public sphere - -A social space—physical, virtual, or theoretical—where
private citizens can come together as a public body to discuss and express
opinions about matters of general interest.
- Culture Industry - -The production for profit of popular music, books,
television, social media, and other types of mass-culture products produced
by capitalist enterprises
- The conditions of culture production - -Economics or money only partly
explains. Concerted cultivation is the concept by Lareau to explain
dichotomous cultural approaches that lead to class reproduction. Class is
reproduced through culture.
- Cultural capital - -Refers to our education, tastes, cultural knowledge, and
our ability to display sophistication or lack thereof in speech, manners, and
other everyday acts.
- Symbols - -anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by
people who share a culture
- Cultural diffusion - -Refers to the spread of cultural traits from one group
to another, which includes material and nonmaterial culture.
- culture leveling - -The process by which cultures become similar to one
another, especially by which Western culture is diffused into other cultures.
, - Culture war - -a conflict pitting a subculture or counterculture against the
dominant culture. Or a conflict between dominant groups within a society.
- Subcultures - -Subcultures are groups of people who accept much of the
dominant culture but are set apart from it by one or more culturally
significant characteristics. Subculture values, beliefs, and practices may
differ from larger group or society.
- Countercultures - -Groups that not only differ from the dominant culture
but also adhere to norms and values that may be incompatible with those of
the dominant culture
- Cultural universal - -refers to values, norms, or other cultural traits that
are found in all cultures. However, the ways of doing them are diverse.
- Pluralistic society - -a society made up of many different groups
- Ethnocentrism - -predicated on the idea that a given culture's norms,
traditions, values, material objects are better than another. It becomes the
basis through which other cultures are judged.
- Cultural relativism - -The idea that aspects of a given culture need to be
understood within the context of that culture. Very little of a culture is
universal, if at all
- Ideal vs. Real Culture - -Ideal culture refers to the norms and values of a
society of what we believe people do or should do
Real culture refers to what people actually think and do in their everyday
lives
- Value clash - -Values clash when there are core values that are challenged
and elicit strong resistance by those who hold them
- Value contradictions - -exists when groups hold opposing incompatible
values which then establish a contradiction.
- Core values - -the values that are central to a group, those around which it
builds a common identity
- Culture lag - -Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind
technological innovations
- Mainstream culture - -a type of culture that is accepted by or involving
most people in a society
