Ch.3 Culture Flashcards
What is Culture?
The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
What are materials of culture?
The physical aspects and creations that society make, use, and share.
What are the Non materials culture?
The abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people’s behavior: language, beliefs, spirituality, values, and political systems.
Components of Culture?
-symbols
-language
-values
-norms
-laws
Symbols
Meaningful representations (flags, statues, etc..)
Language
A set symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another,
-kinds: verbal and nonverbal (written or gestures)
Language, Race, and Ethnicity.
Certain terms and expressions have racial and ethnic overtones that may reinforce negative associations.
Language Diversity in Canada.
Language as a keystone to culture because it is the chief vehicle for understanding and experiencing one’s culture.
Values
Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture.
Core Canadian Values
- Equality and fairness in a democratic society
- Consultation and dialogue
- Accommodation and tolerance
- Support for diversity
- Compassion and generosity
- Canada’s natural beauty
- Canada’s world image: Commitment to freedom, peace, and nonviolent change
What are Value Contradictions?
Values that conflict with one another or are mutually exclusive.
Ideal versus Real Culture
Ideal: values and standards of behaviour that people in a society profess to hold
Real: the values and standards of behaviour that people actually follow
Norms
Established rules of behaviors or standards of conduct.
Prescriptive
What behaviour is appropriate ( IS accepted)
Proscriptive
what behavior is not appropriate (NOT accepted)
Formal
Written down as laws.