Cultures, Subcultures, and Countercultures

The cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.

Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite.

The cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society's cultural ideas and values.

Cultural patterns that set apart a segment of society's population

The practice of judging one culture by the standard of another.

Typically, cultural groups with the most power and societal influence get labeled _________, and people with less power get relegated to __________.

A school of thought that re-centers historical and sociological study in the contributions of Africans and African-Americans.

The perspective that rather than seeing society as a homogenous culture, it recognizes cultural diversity, while advocating for equal standing for all cultural traditions.

Why do cultures form in a structural functionalist perspective?

What can prioritizing one sub-culture over another result in?