Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures

The cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.

• Weak culture

• Abundant culture

• Low culture

• Poor culture

Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite.

• Ethnic culture

• High culture

• Elite culture

• Euro-culture

The cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society's cultural ideas and values.

• Perfect culture

• Essential culture

• Popular culture

• Mainstream culture

Cultural patterns that set apart a segment of society's population

• Weak culture

• Subculture

• Low culture

• Poor culture

The practice of judging one culture by the standard of another.

• ethnocentrism

• Afrocentrism

• Eurocentrism

• Normo-centrism

Typically, cultural groups with the most power and societal influence get labeled _________, and people with less power get relegated to __________.

• the norm, the low

• main-groups, sub-groups

• the norm, sub-groups

• The high, the low

A school of thought that re-centers historical and sociological study in the contributions of Africans and African-Americans.

• African-American School

• Africa-centrism

• Africanism

• Afrocentrism

The perspective that rather than seeing society as a homogenous culture, it recognizes cultural diversity, while advocating for equal standing for all cultural traditions.

• The Theory of Everything

• Globalism

• multiculturalism

• Universalism

Why do cultures form in a structural functionalist perspective?

• Because modern societies don't follow any culture.

• To provide order and cohesiveness in a society.

• This is a false statement.

• Because cultures never change.

What can prioritizing one sub-culture over another result in?

• Social inequalities

• disenfranchising those who belong to cultures that are at odds with the mainstream.

• Both

• Neither