Flashcards
Sociology -Culture
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- 1CultureConsists of beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that define society of peoples way of life
- 2Non-material cultureIntangible creations of human creations of human society
- 3Material cultureTangible products of human society
- 4LanguageIs a system of symbols that allows member of a society to communicate with one another
- 5ValuesAre culturally defined standards by which people judge desirability, goodness and beauty, wand which serve as broad guidelines for social living
- 6BeliefsSpecific statements that people who share culture hold to e true. Values and beliefs tend to support each other
- 7NormsRules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
Two special types:
1. Mores: norms that have great moral significance
2. Folkways- norms that have less moral significance that ores and guide routine or casual interaction - 8Material CultureReflects a society's TECHNOLOGY, the knowledge (and objects produced from that knowledge) that a society of people uses
- 9Socioculture Evolution(Lenski) changes in organizational characteristics of society
Example: size, degree of occupational specialization and degree of relative social inequality (are driven by changes in the level of technology) - 10CounterculturesAre cultural patterns that strongly oppose accepted culture within a society
- 11Three phenomena promote cultural change1. Invention- the process of creating new cultural elements
2. Discovery- recognizing and understanding and idea not fully understood before
3. Diffusion- the spread of cultural traits form one cultural system to another - 12EthnocentrismIs the practice of judging another culture by standards of one's own culture
- 13Theoretical analysis of culture Cultural universalsCultural universal are traits that are found in every known culture
- 14SociobiologyIs a theoretical approach that explores ways in which biological forces affect human culture. It is grounded in art in Darwin's theory not evolution