Tommy's Notes Repository

1.5 Culture

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How would you define culture?

  1. Traditions, a way of doing things that has been passed down
  2. History
  3. Lifestyle
  4. Community ( God i love community god i love community where is abed when you need him )

How she defines culture: how a group of people live, their lifestyle.

there is a larger culture ( e.g. american culture ), and that is called the dominant culture

within the larger culture we have smaller groups, whos way of life is slightly different from the dominant group. those are subcultures. you can belong to many many subcultures

outside of culture we have counter culture, and that is a group of people who’s way of life is perceived to be a threat to the larger culture.

professor’s cultures:

  1. rural
  2. southern
  3. academia
  4. American

Within subcultures, she can use language that everyone in the culture understands. People within subcultures have an easier time talking to eachother.

The Amish are considered a subculture

Counter Cultures are a threat, like Socialists. Or Communists, or LGBTQIA+ people, the KKK, white nationalist groups.

Christianity is a dominant culture

when hippies first emerged, they were perceived as a counter culture. they were breaking all kinds of rules and norms and were a threat to the status quo. nowadays though, they are more of a subculture. they are not perceived as dangerous anymore. Now, a lot of the hippie lifestyle has become part of the dominant culture.

Her 2 points:

  1. culture, must be learned. you are not born knowing culture. She cannot identify as french because she was not raised, she was not taught, anything about the french
  2. Culture is always changing. Not just the dominant culture, but also the subcultures and the counter cultures.

who gets to decide subculture vs counter culture.

  1. the dominant culture
  2. the media

Trans people are being reframed from a subculture back to a counter culture

every culture and subculture has a different ruler ( values ) what might be beautiful for one is not going to be beautiful for another, because they have a different ruler. They all think beauty is important, but just have different views on what beauty is.

4 things that are considered polite from your culture:

  1. holding the door open

4 things rude:

  1. you have to stand up whenever a teacher comes in the room