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This document discusses various aspects of culture, including high culture, popular culture, and the culture of poverty. It also defines subcultures, multiculturalism, and countercultures. Additional topics covered are cultural change over time, the concept of cultural lag, and causes of cultural change such as invention, discovery, and diffusion. The document also defines the concepts of ethnocentrism and xenocentrism.

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Lecture#11

This document discusses various aspects of culture, including high culture, popular culture, and the culture of poverty. It also defines subcultures, multiculturalism, and countercultures. Additional topics covered are cultural change over time, the concept of cultural lag, and causes of cultural change such as invention, discovery, and diffusion. The document also defines the concepts of ethnocentrism and xenocentrism.

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INTRODUCTION

TO
SOCIOLOGY

Lecture 11

CULTURE

CONTINUED

CULTURE BY SOCIAL CLASS


High Culture: Cultural patterns
of the elite.
Popular Culture: Cultural
patterns that are widespread.
Culture of Poverty: Cultural
patterns shared by the poor.

SUBCULTURE
Cluster of patterns that
set apart some
segments of societys
population.

MULTICULTURALISM
Recognizing cultural
diversity and promoting
the equality of all
cultural traditions.

COUNTERCULTURE
Subculture which is in
active opposition to the
dominant culture.

CULTURAL CHANGE

The alteration of culture


over time.

CULTURAL LAG
Cultural elements change at
different rates.
The different rate of change in the
two integrated elements of culture
can result in one element lagging
behind the other. William Ogburn.
May disrupt the system.

CAUSES OF CHANGE
Invention: the process of creating
new cultural elements.
Discovery: finding something that
already exists.
Diffusion: The spread of cultural
traits from one society to another.

ETHNOCENTRISM
The practice of judging
another culture by the
standard of ones own
culture.
Considering ones own
culture as superior.

XENO-CENTRISM
Considering others
culture as superior to
ones own.

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