Question

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Unit 2 has discussed how sociologists identify cultures and subcultures. Cultures and subcultures have unique components, such as language, values, norms (behaviors), and food. For this Discussion Board, you will dive deeper into culture by completing the following:

1. Choose a popular television show (examples include The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, The Goldbergs, and Orange is the New Black) or a movie you have enjoyed.  
   • For your chosen show or movie, provide specific examples for each component of culture (language, values, norms, and food) found within your show or movie.
     • For example, in The Simpsons, language can be seen with the word "D'oh" and the phrase, "Don't have a cow, man!"
   • Each TV show could be said to represent a subculture of mainstream society. How do the four components of culture (language, values, norms, and food) identified above combine to create a group that is different from or similar to other groups you would expect to see in mainstream American culture?
2. Finally, choose 1 of the following theorists: Durkheim, Marx, or Cooley. What does your chosen theorist say about the role of culture in shaping human behavior?

Answer 1

In the TV series the Young Sheldon, the protagonist is a child who faces problems of friendship. Naturally, the characters use the language according to their roles and performance. The common London English has been used in the dialogues of the series. It is the common matter that a child must have many school friends. But Sheldin has no friend and it worries his mother. He tries to get friends. But he fails. In the tv series the domestic matters and the school environment have been shown in the maximum parts. The familiar culture and food habits have been shown in the show.

In the story there is no deviation from the common familiar American culture. The protagonist is taken to a psychologist and the psychologist advises him to read comic story. In the modern age with technological advancements the problem of Sheldon is a common problem to the American children. They are very lonely and they forget to read comic books. But the inequality in the class is prevalent here. All the children do not same characteristics. They forget to enjoy comedy. The difference appears in every sphere of the society.

Marx says of the conflict culture. He says that culture provokes inequality. It is the culture of the bourgeoisie to deprive the proletariat from their rights. Religion is the opium of the people and he says that a particular religion generates such a culture that causes discrimination in the people. There are different types of class in the society and the different class is made according to the economic base. Here Marx says that the culture of one class may deprive the other.