Provide an example of cultural inconsistency between ideal culture and real culture in the U.S.

1. We value cultural relativism and try not to be ethnocentric. However, cultural relativism has been also criticized. Should we consider cultures that do not value gender equality or practice child prostitution as morally equivalent to those that do not? How would you approach those cultures? Do you still try to practice cultural relativism?

2.Provide an example of cultural inconsistency between ideal culture and real culture in the U.S. Think about cultural inconsistency in the following fields: the family, higher education, consumer culture, the workplace, gender relations, and race relations.

3.Provide one detailed example of the influence that mass media can have on a culture’s attitudes and behaviors. Your example can be based on U.S. mass media or international mass media.

4.Explain mechanisms of social class reproduction by providing an example and applying sociological concepts such as values, norms (mores and folkways), structure, agency, habitus, and cultural capital.

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