Culture and Identity
12th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze how cultural factors influence the formation of individual and collective identities.
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High culture refers to the cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite, while low culture includes the cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.
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Ethnocentrism is judging one culture by the standards of another, while multiculturalism recognizes cultural diversity and advocates for equal standing for all cultural traditions.
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A counter-culture actively opposes mainstream culture in an attempt to change how a society functions, and can act as catalysts for cultural change.
