Chapter 3

Question 1

What is Material Culture?

Answer 1

Tangible or physical items people create use for and give meaning to in a culture

Question 2

What is non-material culture?

Answer 2

Intangibles produced by intellectual or spiritual development, as well as the use of artifacts by any given culture - helps give meaning to social world

Question 3

Difference between material and non-material culture

Answer 3

Non-material - ideas, languages, symbols, traditions, practices, beliefs, and morals.
Material - money, tools, utensils, any physical item that has meaning.

Question 4

What is Culture Shock?

Answer 4

Sense of disorientation and confusion that results when placed in unfamiliar surrounding / exposure to new and unknown forms of material and non-material culture - this is where non-material cultures become very important

Question 5

How Functionalist perspective views culture?

Answer 5

-foundation of soceity (shared culture values)
-Cultural values and norms are social facts
-Emile Durkhem - people show a collective conscience (people grow to accept norms and follow them unconsciously)

Question 6

How conflict perspective views culture

Answer 6

-Serves dominant class while expoilting lower class
-norms reinforce dominance
-values perpetuate inequalities
-common culture doesn’t exist
- we don’t own anything - goal is consuming - we are just consumers
-lack of correspondents and the obvious contradictions between cultural norms and values (equality is valued but not all groups are treated equally)

Question 7

How does culture shape reality?

Answer 7

• Culture consists of