1. SS310 Unit 3 Seminar The Camelot Years Creation of a National Culture
Exploring the 1960s:
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Prof. Erica Arnold-Wyche

2. Seminar Agenda Seminar Ground Rules Questions from Unit 2?
Unit 3 Key Terms/Concepts
Ideology
Culture
Field Trip: “The American Way of Life” Debate
Unit 3 Discussion
Unit 3 Assignments
Q & A

3. Seminar Ground Rules Focus on Topic Arrival time Respect
Question: “//”
Participate

4. Unit 2

5. Unit 3 Key Concepts Ideology:
An integrated system of ideas or beliefs that rationalizes and justifies the exercise of power, influencing how power is exercised

6. Unit 3 Key Concepts
What are some of the key Functions of Ideology?

7. Unit 3 Key Concepts Functions of Ideology:
Describe human characteristics and society
Rationalize & justifies a way of life
Provides standards of right and wrong
Motivates people to social and political action

8. Culture: Unit 3 Key Terms
The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next

9. Unit 3 Key Terms
Material culture: the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry. Example? VS
Non-material culture” (also called symbolic culture) a group’s way of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction) Example?

10. Unit 3 Key Terms
Cultural leveling: the process by which cultures become similar to one another; refers especially to the process by which U.S. culture is being exported and diffused into other nations.
To what extent do you think this is happening? Example?

11. Unit 3 Key Terms
Ethnocentrism – the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors.

12. Unit 3 Key Terms
Globalization – the growing interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism.
Since the 60s, the western way of life has rapidly spread across the globe. There is not a city in the world now where you cannot find a McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC, and, of course, blue jeans.
//Is globalization is synonymous with Americanization?”

13. Unit 3 Field Trip: debate
Should the American way of life be embraced or rejected?
Instructions: Go to Select three areas and read through both sides of the debate. Decide on which side of the debate you land for each of the 3 areas you selected. Be prepared to explain why you feel this way.
Model principles
Economic consequences
Unhealthy
Diplomatic feel
Culture
International diversity
NOTE: We will reconvene in 5 minutes. Please do not post your assessment until I give ahead go ahead to do so. This way we can have a groups discussion without the screen scrolling too fast. Thanks!

14. Field tip debrief
//Model principles: Does the American way of life lack the model principles that should be emulated? Why to Why not?

15. Field trip debrief
//Economics: Does adopting the American way of life have economic consequences? Why or Why not?

16. Field trip debrief
//Unhealthy: Is the American way of life unhealthy?

17. Field trip debrief
//Diplomatic feel: Does the American way of life encourage uncooperative, undiplomatic mentalities?

18. Field trip debrief
//Culture: Is the American "culture" inferior to others internationally? Why or Why not?

19. Field trip debrief
//Culture: Is the American "culture" inferior to others internationally? Why or Why not?

20. Field trip debrief
// International diversity: Would the adoption of the American way of life mean the decay of unique international cultures? Why or Why not?

21. Field trip debrief
//Overall, which side of the debate did you come out on? Embrace or reject “Americanized globalization?”

22. Unit 3 Discussion
Let’s discuss the impact of the global spread of capitalism and the American way of life. ….
//Are we (the USA) indeed becoming a “global village” with western beliefs, values, norms?
EXAMPLES?

23. Unit 3 Discussion
//Will other nations’ beliefs, customs and traditions eventually become extinct?

24. Unit 3 Discussion
//What place is there for other nations’ beliefs, customs, traditions, etc?
Example:Hijab, Niqab, Burqa

25. Unit 3 Discussion
What is one example that you can think of where it appears traditions, customs, and beliefs that go directly against American values in this new global village?

26. Unit 3 Discussion
Is there a place for such traditions, customs, and beliefs that go directly against American values in this new global village?

27. Unit 3 Assignments Readings Web Resources Discussion Board Seminar
Activity: There is an interesting PowerPoint with audio presentation on the topics of capitalism and socialism.

28. Unit 3 Key Concepts ECOMONIC SYSTEMS* Capitalism
Laissez-faire capitalism
Socialism
Democratic socialism
Convergence Theory
Multinational corporations
*Economy - a system of producing and distributing goods and services

29. Unit 3 Key Concepts
Capitalism – An economic system characterized by the private ownership of the means of production, market competition, and the pursuit of profits.
VS.
Laissez-faire capitalism - unrestrained manufacture and trade (literally “hands off” capitalism)

30. Unit 3 Key Concepts
Socialism – an economic system characterized by the public ownership of the means of production, central planning, and the distribution of goods without a profit motive VS
Democratic socialism – a hybrid economic system in which capitalism is mixed with state ownership

31. Unit 3 Key Concepts
TIP: There is an interesting PowerPoint with audio presentation on the topics of capitalism and socialism via the Unit 3 Activities Link.

32. Unit 3 Key Concepts
Convergence Theory – the view that as capitalist and socialist economic systems each adopt features of the other, a hybrid (or mixed) economic system will emerge

33. Unit 3 Key Concepts
Multinational corporations – companies that operate across national boundaries; also called transnational corporations

34. Q&A?

35. Thanks for coming!