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Sociology and Culture

• If culture is so hard to define, why do
  Sociologists try?

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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

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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)

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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.

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Categorization of approaches to culture
Example Category (1. Your Guess) (2. Mine) Reason for your guess
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...
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Categorization of approaches to culture Answers
Example Category Reason
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
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Formative!

• Complete the questions related to cultural
  perspective in any of the ways provided on the
  sheet.
• This will be collected as a formative, so what
  you do not finish in class will become homework.