Differences between real and ideal culture?
Ideal culture is how people wish society would be, versus real
culture, which is the reality of what culture actually is. An
example of this would be the cultural ideal of magazines and
society uplifting women and explaining that all body types are
normal and beautiful. This can be contrasted with the real culture
of body shaming and lifting very thin bodies up as the ideal
beauty, to the exclusion of all other body types.