Ch.3 Culture as a symbol system

Question 1

Symbol

Answer 1

something that stands for or represents something else.

Question 2

according to principle of symbolic interactionism, society is “socially constructed”.
This principle suggest that every time interact,

Answer 2

we interpret the interaction according to the subjective(personal) meaning we bring to the interaction.
—-Culture as symbolic

Question 3

language

Answer 3

a shared symbol system of rules and meanings that governs the production and interpretation of speech.

Question 4

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Answer 4

the idea that language determines thought.

also called linguistic relativity