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CULTURAL PLURALISM, IDENTITY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - based on
        
        difference in class, ethnicity, age or geography
      - Subordinate sector of a culture, differs from it in social and symbolic terms
      - You get into a sub-culture only by interacting with someone who already share this model
        
        The interactions are at a microsocial level, this system is very cohesive, they ofter are like a community
        
        Specific identity and specific style through
        
        Objects, type of music, clothing, hairstyle
        
        in order to communicate to others one own identity and one's role in the society
        
        expression of contemporary urban life (graffiti makers, bikers, fan clubs)
        
        urban cultures
- - - - 1950s: industry mass production & consumption spread widely and rapidily by TV
        
        Mass c. → popular c. produced by industrial production technique to make profit
        
        CRITICISM
        
        uniform messages does not means received uniformly by people (individuals)
        
        messages mediated through informal relationships (opion leaders, social contexts, groups)
        
        Recipients of the messages (consumers) are much more active and creative than what supposed
        
        Distinction between high/popular/mass culture rejected.
        
        There are relationship between them, not to be considered non communicating areas
        
        ➡ STREET ART (1970s)
        
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        Reserch in the past → popular culture very diverse no homogeneous culture
        
        Interactions between high and low classes
        
        Are there no difference between the 3??
        
        Values and beliefs vary following lines of social division
        
        Relationship between tastes and social stratification (artistic events)
        
        Inglehart: 50s silent revolution changing the dominant materialistic values with post materialistic
        
        Mannheim: analysis of generation from a sociological point of view
        
        strong historical experiences are turning point for a new idea of society
        
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    - - Describing a culture when emerges the "mass society"
      - considered a degraded culture compared to the ideal "high culture"
- - - - Identified by a feeling of common origin (territory, language, distinct history) not by gender of ascribed aspects (age)