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Sociology and Culture
If culture is so hard to define,
why do Sociologists try?
Review
What is culture?
What are the three key social sciences that
attempt to examine social behaviour?
Define: 1. structural functionalism
2. symbolic interactionalist
3. conflict
4. feminist
5. post modern
Cultural Divisions Within Society
Culture
• A group of
people with
similar
expressions
of identity who
will share a
common link
to geography
Sub – Culture Counter –
Culture
• A group of
people within a • A rebellion
specific culture within culture
who will express
– a group of
their ideals,
people who
beliefs and
will express
interests
opposing
differently but
still identify
perspectives
within a specific and
cultural group
characteristics
Mapping SHS
Definitions
Structural Functionalist: Society works, when it
does not – society will fix itself
Symbolic Interactionalist: What we are is obvious
by our presentation
Conflict: People with power will fight to keep it,
people without power will fight to get it
Feminist: Women, sex, gender and the power
imbalances caused by being female, sex, and
gender
Post Modern: How do we get and process
information, our lives are not able to be explained
easily by another person (hermeneutic)
2 New Terms
(Yes, write these down!)
Cultural Materialism:
Human social life is a response to the needs of
survival and then the wants of people who have
met those needs. Therefore, human cultural
groups can be studied through an examination of
their “ things” and how they get them.
Sociobiology:
Human behaviour can be explained through
evolution and genetics. People ultimately want to
reproduce, eat, and defend their food, mates, and
offspring. (The 3 F’s…)
Categorization of approaches to culture
Example
Max Headroom Coke
Commercial (Video)
Japanese Divorce
Ceremony (CNN Video)
Suri Lip Plates (Video)
Horror of Female
Circumcision
(Video/Disturbing)
Quiet Kid in Prison (Video)
Dos Equis Commercial Most Interesting Man In The
World - YouTube
We are hungry...
Category
(1. Your Guess)
(2. Mine)
Reason for your
guess
Categorization of
approaches to culture “Answers”
Example
Category
Max Headroom Coke
Commercial (Video)
Cultural Materalism
Japanese Divorce
Ceremony (CNN Video)
Structural Functionalist
Suri Lip Plates (Video)
Symbolic Interactionalist
Horror of Female
Circumcision
(Video/Disturbing)
Feminist
Quiet Kid in Prison (Video)
Post Modern
Dos Equis Commercial Most Interesting Man In The
World - YouTube
Sociobiology
We are hungry...
Conflict
Reason
Formative!
• How would the
perspectives
(including the new
ones) view
cultural expression
at SHS?
• HINT –
REMEMBER
THE MAP?!?