W4.1 March 25 (Mon) -- kim eunseon

 1.Summary

  The early culture is a high culture and sees culture as the development of civilization. This concept reflects the inequality within European society and colonies around the world and equates culture with civilization, thus holding the opposite concept of nature and non-civilization. This is understood to mean that the meaning of high culture is that people who use the culture (such as those who claim that jazz, a classical music, is more sophisticated than indigenous musical traditions) are considered sophisticated. This concept of culture has changed to include a more diverse society, eliminating the evaluation element of the concept of culture and giving priority to distinctions between different cultures. Now, high culture simply refers to the objects, symbols, norms, values and beliefs of a specific group, which can also be called popular culture.

  -Subculture can be said to be a culture that a small number of people share and actively participate in within the wider culture. Examples include people who ride kickboards, idol culture, and people who work part-time. A counterculture is a contradictory culture in which some of its beliefs, values, and norms are opposed to popular culture. In other words, it is a culture belonging to a lower level culture.

  -Ethnocentrism is a perspective that looks at other cultures from the perspective of one's own culture. In other words, it is a view that one's own culture is the best and other cultures are inferior, but ironically, this may be something that all cultures have in common. This belief can be said to exist because it involves feelings of cohesion, internal camaraderie, and devotion to the in-group.

-Cultural relativism is the belief that cultural concepts and values cannot be fully translated or fully understood in other languages. To put it simply, it does not mean superiority over any particular culture (not that our culture is superior, nor that other cultures are superior), but that we should understand each other and acknowledge cultural diversity.

  -Although many perspectives and theoretical approaches to understanding culture were introduced earlier, there is one integrationist model to understand culture. We propose four highly interactive elements: macro-objective, macro-subjective, micro-objective, and micro-subjective.

 

2. Interesting points

During the high school curriculum, students learn various perspectives on understanding culture and standards for classifying popular culture and subculture. During that curriculum, there was no integrationist model as advocated by Richer, and I was very surprised to hear it for the first time through this article. Law is given as an example as a macro objective element that plays an important role in forming social structures and systems, and as a micro objective element that is the interaction and behavior pattern between individuals, behavior and human interaction patterns are used as an example, and the four unfamiliar elements are given appropriate examples. It was easy to understand. So my understanding of the integrationist model is that it can be used to understand social interactions and develop sociological theory by exploring the relationship between objective social structures and subjective culture and perceptions.

 

3. discussion

  To what extent is the integrationist model, which I understand to be used to understand social interactions and develop sociological theory by exploring the relationships between objective social structures and subjective culture and perceptions, actually used in conjunction with it? Is this a perspective that can actually be applied?

 

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Q. What examples of inequality leading to conflict can we think of?

 

A. An example of inequality leading to conflict is the military issue. Due to men's physical superiority, gender conflict arises over whether only men serve in the military. Conflicts between women and men appear because it is sometimes argued that women should also serve in the military.

 

Q. what are we signaling through the choice of our individual clothing in the classroom?

 

Through their own clothes, we can infer what their preferences are and what they are going to today. For example, if you dress up in a skirt that you don't usually wear, you can infer that you are going on a date with someone.

 

Q. Are humans really rational?

 

I don't think humans are rational. I think they're the most emotional of all animals. That's because humans interact with each other. When dealing with people, the basic base communicates emotionally, even if you don't try to deal with them emotionally. I think it's more emotional than rational because I try to show good sides to others by empathizing with each other. Additionally, as an example of how emotional humans are, there is an actor in the Korean entertainment industry who recently received the provocative nickname 'transit breakup'. Because the process is so long and personal, I will omit much of it and summarize it. Although he had a good image as an intelligent and rational actor, his three emotional explanations became the target of public criticism. Looking at these examples, you might think that humans are more emotional animals than any other animal that tries to be rational.