What determines the level of culture?
Many Americans keep dogs. And some countries including South Korea eat dog meat.
Like this, although same thing, some countries worship it but some countries eat it.
Because Cultures of each countries are different.
The way of whether it's culture or not is distinguish nature and nurture. ‘Artificially made’ is a ‘culture’.
We do not define something via only Biological characteristics. To define specific targets, we need culture. Culture not only means object or action, but also means norm, value, faith etc.
This article talk about cultural sociology, It is the study of how culture interacts with various social institutions and structures.
Cultural concepts change and culture can be subdivided.
For example, there are Subcultures and Countercultures.
Subcultures are a culture that is shared and actively participate by a handful of people in a wide variety of cultures. Countercultures are subculture of beliefs, values or norms that challenge or contradict the principal cultures of their own.
And there is ethnocentrism and culture relativism in view of culture. Ethnocentrism tends to see the world in terms of its own culture. And culture relativism is the belief that cultural concepts and values can not be translated entirely or completely understood in different languages. That is, the perception of understanding and recognizing the diversity of world cultures.
In theory for understanding culture, There is an integrationist model advocated by Ritzer.
This theory consist of a macro-objective component (eg, society, law, bureaucracy), a micro-objective component (eg, patterns of behavior and human interaction), a macro-subjective component (eg, culture, norms, and values), and a micro-subjective component (eg, perceptions, beliefs).
This model is particularly useful for understanding the role of culture in sociological studies.
A culture can have a certain utilitarian function called ‘Maintenance of order’, which has resulted in a shared understanding of shared interests and meaning.
On the other hand, cultures can cause and maintain social inequality.
As a result, efforts for social justice and equality must often overcome cultural patterns that lead dominants and subordinates to blindly accept existing social orders as natural or inevitable.
The concept of ' Countercurulure ' was new to me.
Also Ritzer's Cultural Theory and The Function of Culture were new to me.
I need to look for a dictionary definition.
Defining high culture separately is, in other words, discriminate against the cultures.
Because we can think “Is there a low culture if there is a high culture?” inevitably.
Surely inhumane culture ought to be ruled out.
But i don't think there is a high and low level of the rest of the culture except for that.
What is the standard of high culture? And why is Ballet considered to be a high culture?
The standard of being civilized is also ambiguous.
So it would have been nice if it were mentioned on the basis of its standards and problems.
the source of image ;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57KW6RO8Rcs
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