Study guide for lecture notes on culture.
Given cultural variation with respect to attitudes toward sexuality and sexual desire, what can we say about the socially constructed nature of sexuality in our society?
Discuss how culture can be seen as ideology. Use culture-specific beliefs about sexual desire as examples.
What is the difference between real and ideal culture? Why should we not conflate the two?
How do the various elements of culture (material goods, values, beliefs, and norms) influence the ways in which people live?
How might an ethnocentric perspective bias our sense of what is reasonable, appropriate, or morally right? Give examples.
Discuss Ann Swidler’s concept of culture as a “tool kit.” Use the two versions of love as an example.
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