Chapter 3 Flashcards
What are Symbols?
Concrete objects or abstract terms that represent something else.
What is Culture?
Consists of the shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems. also includes the way that non-material objects – like thoughts, actions, language, and values – come together with material objects to form a way of life.
What is Material Culture?
the tools and techniques that enable people to accomplish tasks.
What is Non-material Culture?
Composed of symbols, norms, and other intangible elements. Its the culture of ideas
What do Sociologists tend to focus on?
Non-material culture
What are Beliefs?
Cultural statements that define what community members consider real.
What are Norms?
The rules of conduct for membership in a group.
What is Social Organization?
An orderly arrangement of social interaction
What is Cooperation?
the ability to create a complex social life by establishing generally accepted ways of doing things & ideas about what is right and what is wrong.
What are discussed as freedoms?
Multiculturalism., rights revolution, postmodernism
What are discussed as Constraints?
Rationalization, Consumerism, counterculture to subculture
What is Ethnocentrism?
The tendency for people to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of their own culture
What is Multiculturalism?
Federal government policy that promotes and funds the maintenance of culturally diverse communities, thus strengthening the trend toward cultural diversification
What is the Rights Revolution?
The process by which socially excluded groups struggle to win equal rights under the law and in practice beginning in the second half of the 20th century
What is Consumerism?
The tendency to define ourselves in terms of the goods and services we purchase.
