Culture,Values and Norms

Week 1

Culture, Values and Norms

I. Vibrant Market Economy

II. Radical Individualism

III. Equality of Opportunity

Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
IMAGE: A Classless Society?

IV. The Politics of Equality

IMAGE: Andrew Jackson

V. Opportunity: Elimination of All Privileges

VI. Believed in Hard Work and the Success Ethic

VII. Implications

Materialism and Conformity
Dividing Lines: Race and Gender in a "Classless Society"

Gender: the Ideology of Domesticity
Race Lines
Segregation
Indian Removal

Benjamin Harrison, Report on Wounded Knee Massacre
and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage
IMAGE: Indian Boarding School

Deviants: Institutionalization

Self-Control
Uniformity and Sameness

VIII. The Wagon Train

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created: February 10, 2000
last updated: February 23, 2000