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CULTURE, SOCIETY
AND POLITICS
WHAT IS CULTURE?
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
1. WHAT IS CULTURE?
3 types:
1. Objectified Cultural Capital
2. Embodied Cultural Capital
3. Institutionalized Cultural Capital
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
WHAT IS CULTURAL
CAPITAL?
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
4. CULTURAL DIVERSITY: CULTURAL CAPITAL
The cultural knowledge that serves as
currency that helps us navigate culture
and alters our experiences and the
opportunities available to us.
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
4. CULTURAL DIVERSITY: THREE TYPES OF CULTURAL CAPITAL
Resentment or contradiction
COUNTERSUBCULTURE
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
6. CULTURE SHOCK
WHY CULTURE
SHOCK HAPPENS?
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
6. CULTURE SHOCK
A culture must evaluated using its own context and not the
context of other cultures.
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
7. ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM
A culture must evaluated using its own context and not the
context of other cultures.
SECTION I. The Dynamics of Culture
QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think you are ethnocentric?
2. If you are ethnocentric, how
ethnocentric you are?