Material Culture: Pageants are all about appearances ad outfits. Items such as earrings, necklaces, and bling are what pageant girls get judges on. Not to mention all the makeup that the girls put on to make them more beautiful. To make a pageant girl stand out from the rest is their dress. The dress is usually knee length with ruffles, sparkles and bright colors. A typical pageant usually consists of swim wear, beauty wear, and talent wear.
NonMaterial Culture: Every girl who enters pageants wants to win and is really competitive. In the pageant business parents start their children in them as young as 5 months. To get to the top pageants like Miss America girls spend hours a day working and practicing on their routines. Pageant girls are all about smiles and turns on stage.
Norms
Folkways: Spray tanning, whitening teeth
Mores: Rigging the competition
Taboos: Injuring or killing a fellow contestant to get ahead
Culture Shock: Someone who is not in the pageant world might think dressing kids up and prancing around the stage is wrong. From inside the culture, that is what normal kids do for an activity and not considered wrong.
NonMaterial Culture: Every girl who enters pageants wants to win and is really competitive. In the pageant business parents start their children in them as young as 5 months. To get to the top pageants like Miss America girls spend hours a day working and practicing on their routines. Pageant girls are all about smiles and turns on stage.
Norms
Folkways: Spray tanning, whitening teeth
Mores: Rigging the competition
Taboos: Injuring or killing a fellow contestant to get ahead
Culture Shock: Someone who is not in the pageant world might think dressing kids up and prancing around the stage is wrong. From inside the culture, that is what normal kids do for an activity and not considered wrong.