Chapter 2 Flashcards
Complex sister of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society
Involves believes, values, knowledge, art, morals, customs, habitats, language and dress
Culture
Consists of objects created when I given society it’s buildings are tools toys print and broadcast media
Material culture
Includes norms was customs ideas and beliefs of a group of people
Nonmaterial culture
What are the 5 characteristics of culture?
Culture is:
- shared
- learned
- taken for granted
- symbolic
- varies across time and place
A set of symbols and rolls that together in a meeting for wagon ride to communication system
Language
Asserts that language determines other aspects of culture because language provides the categories to which social reality is defined
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Specific cultural expectations of how to behave in a given situation
Norms
This man identified two types of norms: folkways and mores
William Graham Sumner
General standards of behavior adhered to by a group
Folkways
Strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior
-injunctions, legal, religious
(Small social upset)
Mores
Written set of guidelines that define right and wrong and society
Laws
Mechanisms of social control them for folkways, norms and mores
-consequences
Social sanctions
Behaviors that bring the most serious sanctions
- can be positive or negative
(Something that REALLY shouldn’t be done)
Taboos
See radical approach in society based on the idea that you can discover the normal social through disrupting it
Ethnomethodology
Shared ideas how to collectively by people within a given culture about what is true
Beliefs
Abstract standards in a society or group that define ideal principles
Values
The culture of the most powerful group in a society
Dominant culture
Cultures of groups whose values and norms of the behavior differ to some degree from those of the dominant culture
Subcultures
Subcultures created as a reaction against the values of dominant culture
Countercultures
Habit of seeing things only from the point of view of one’s own group
Ethnocentrism
The idea that something to be understood and judged only in relation to the cultural context in which it appears
Cultural relativism
Diffusion of a single culture throughout the world
Global culture
Reverse the channels of communication that are available to wide segments of the population
-print, film and electronic media
Mass media
Fast networks of social interaction that media have inspired
Social media
