Concept of Culture Part 1

Culture allows us to look at similarity and diffrences in the socail world
Customary ways people behve towards each other
Non- Material
1. the world of ideas created by members of society. Mental capcities, thoughts,behaviour and actions
  1. Values and Rules
  2. Both involve cultural practices- The practical logics by which we think little encounters
Material
1. tangiable things created by members of society
How Society Works ?
1. Is diverse&cretive
2. not inherirted
3. Constrains of faciltates particular sort of actions
5 major components:>Symbols >Language >Vaules >Norms >Material Culture
1. Norms:Rules and expectations by which society guides the behaviour. > important > emotional attachment >Breaking=treat >some are translatted into law
2. Language:Includes spoken,written and sign- very important components. >Means of cultural reproduction, shapes reality-has own distinct symbols. >shapes the way we think
3. Values: are standards people have-vary fromculture to culture: >percive are surrounding >form a moral world
4. Material Culture is these elements that distinguish are society from another
Symbols: Anything carries particular meaning e.g Red Light. Creates and mainpulate symbolss- Canvary around the world

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	Created by Louise Brennan over 10 years ago