dominant culture
dominant culture Whereas
traditional societies can be characterized by a high consistency of cultural traits and
customs, modern societies are often a conglomeration of different, often competing,
cultures and
subcultures. In such a situation of diversity, a dominant culture is one that is able, through economic or political power, to impose its values, language, and ways of behaving on a subordinate culture or cultures. This may be achieved through legal or political suppression of other sets of values and patterns of behaviour, or by monopolizing the media of communication.
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Dominant culture stupidities.(Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Traffic; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...standardised populations. This disengaged 'dominant culture ideology' is appropriative, homogenising...also in a syndrome the author calls 'Dominant Culture Stupidities'. Dominant culture (white, male, heterosexual, middle...
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BLACK PROF CARRIES TORCH ON 'DOMINANT CULTURE' CAMPUS
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/8/1988; 700+ words
; ...of minority students and faculty on campuses - a flickering light has begun to shine. A black college professor on a "dominant culture" campus - quietly going about her business - has established an African Art History and Material Culture course at Northern...
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How Canadian Pacific changed a "dominant culture".(from the editor)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Railway Age; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...issue was CPR's long-standing bulk-traffic orientation. "There was a natural resistance in the bulk sector--the dominant culture in the company--to moving toward a technology considered to be mainly for scheduled freight," Ritchie said. Internal...
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New society: one without a dominant culture.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/7/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Now I've got to figure out white people, and explain how all of us in California can create a new society without a dominant culture. The job won't be easy, but it should be fun and offer lifetime employment. X X X (Joe Rodriguez is a columnist for...
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WHITE WASH The nation's dominant culture is impacting body standards on the growing number of minority women, leading to a likelihood of increased eating disorders
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/4/2004; 553 words
; ...lines, Mickley said. That's because as a young woman of color gains status in American society, she tends to adopt the dominant culture's standards of beauty. At the same time, images of black and Hispanic women, becoming more common in mainstream entertainment...
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Seeking a Way Between Two Worlds; Young Muslims Strive to Uphold Their Faith, Find a Place in the Dominant Culture
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/6/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Muslim children now are taught to be defensive, not to watch television, she said, to be braced for rejection from the dominant culture. A broader understanding of Islam will come in simply doing work that helps others, she said. Action will speak louder...
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Thank God, Cliff's hijacked the charts `It's all so damned absurd that I can't help being chuffed. We are idiotic, and our dominant culture is idiotic'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; WORRYING THINGS are happening inside my head. First, I keep feeling pangs of compassion for Jeffrey Archer - for which, in my defence, I realise there is No Excuse. Second, I am pleased that Sir Cliff Richard has achieved the No 1 slot, so pleased that I have become certain in my own mind that this
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Born poor and smart: I was born poor and smart. If you're poor, you must not be smart. If you're smart, then why are you poor? According to our dominant culture, poverty confirms a personal flaw.(feature)
Magazine article from: off our backs; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; My mother was smart, and she was poor. She did things that poor people aren't supposed to do. Between working at the E-Z Bargain Center and cleaning up the messes that my father made around town and her four children made around the house, she read. She read to me when I was young. Later, she
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POLITICAL POWER AND THE RULE OF LAW
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 2/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...nauseam about who has assumed new political power in Washington. We're subjected...Washington and the mainstream media, that political power is proper and inevitable. The problem...politicians and the media celebrate political power, they really are celebrating the...
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Too much political power, not enough economic independence
Newspaper article from: Michigan Citizen; 3/1/1997; 593 words
; Michigan Citizen 03-01-1997 Too much political power, not enough economic independence. What...of the Black community? Economic power or political power? Political power is a group experience; it is usually acquired...
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dominant culture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
dominant culture Whereas traditional societies...different, often competing, cultures and subcultures . In...diversity, a dominant culture is one that is able...behaving on a subordinate culture or cultures. This may be achieved...
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Organizational Culture
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Management
...the impact an organization's culture can have on such key factors as...profit. A STRONG ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Strong organizational cultures are those where the core values of the dominant culture are strongly believed by the great...
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counter-culture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
counter-culture Where subcultures specifically...in direct opposition to the dominant culture of the society in which they...termed ‘contra-cultures’ or ‘counter-cultures’. The term was...
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Working‐Class Life and Culture
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...x2010;Class Life and Culture. In his landmark study Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing...define working‐class culture as a “kind of resource...Knights of Labor became the dominant institutional expression of...
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Neighborhood Effects
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Wilson 1987), and “ culture of segregation ”...and housing markets) and culture that under closer scrutiny...homogenize the “ culture ” of urban poverty...producing both popular and dominant cultures. As Catherine Garner and...
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