Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures: Crash Course Sociology #11
What is culture? How do we define it and how does it change? We'll explore different categories of culture, like low culture, high culture, and sub-cultures. We'll also revisit our founding...
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How many cultures are there in the world? We’ve talked a lot about the things that make a culture a culture – things like norms and symbols and languages. But we haven’t really discussed how you lump all those little things together and say, yes, these are the things that belong together – these things are culture A, and these other things are culture B. So, what are the rules of culture? Well, culture isn’t just about nationality, or the language you speak. You and another person can live in the same country and speak the same language, and still have totally different cultural backgrounds. Within a single country, even within a single city, you see lots of different cultures, and each person’s cultural background will be a mishmash of many diff...
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How many cultures are there in the world? We’ve talked a lot about the things that make a culture a culture – things like norms and symbols and languages. But we haven’t really discussed how you lump all those little things together and say, yes, these are the things that belong together – these things are culture A, and these other things are culture B. So, what are the rules of culture? Well, culture isn’t just about nationality, or the language you speak. You and another person can live in the same country and speak the same language, and still have totally different cultural backgrounds. Within a single country, even within a single city, you see lots of different cultures, and each person’s cultural background will be a mishmash of many diff...
