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21 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
How we do things around here. Learned beahavior socailly produced. |
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Ethnocentrism |
Belief in Superiority of one's own culture |
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Cultural Relativism |
Looking at others cultures with an open mind, from another perspective. |
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Prejudice |
Attitude from apperance |
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Discrimination |
Action For Agaisnt an apperance. |
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Social Structure |
Bundle of forces controlling human culutre |
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Life course |
Shift from one stage to another, transition with age |
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Sociological perspectives |
The functionalist perspective attempts to explain social institutions as collective means to meet individual and social needs. |
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Importance of Language |
framework of our understanding of the world |
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
Language preceeds thought, dictates our understanding of the owrld--framework of understanding |
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Corporate Personhood |
Corporations are people, unlimited and undiscolsed money into politics. Their money is free speech, used the first admendment. |
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Proletarit |
the average, 99%, the expolited workers |
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Bourgeoisie |
1%, Rich and super rich, power and privlaged |
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"Advertising and the End of the World video" |
6 corporations own media, little vairety, tell us what to think through reptition |
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Massive overconsumption |
People are constantly buying things, because of planned obsolexcence and percieved obsolescene, and then throwing things away. Diminishing our resources. |
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Planned Obsolescene |
functional product needs to be replaced because of media or matialistic needs. |
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Perceived Obsolescence |
Products are manufactered to break down, and not to last.
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"Story of stuff" |
Need to find a way to turn our waste into resources due to constant consumption |
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Corporate Media/Media Giants |
Six corporations control media, and this controls our livs by telling us what to do, and what to buy, by repition. |
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Externalized cost |
Product prize is not seen, child labour, de-forestation, unfair labor practices |
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Sterotype |
Belief about a certain group, usally false, basis of asumptions onto an induvidual. |
