Culture Flashcards
What is culture?
The shared ways of a human social group that include the ways of thinking, understanding, and feeling that have been gained through common experience in social groups and are passed on from one generation to another
shared understandings
nonmaterial vs material culture
What is nonmaterial (symbolic) culture?
Encompasses values, beliefs, behaviors, social norms
in our head
What is material culture?
Everything that is part of our constructed environment
can have symbolic components
Fashion
What is socialization?
The process by which we become culturally competent in our various social environments
In the reading, Becker mentions his learning about being a musician from the older musicians
What are beliefs?
Ideas about what is true and false
What are values?
Notions as to what’s right and wrong
What are norms?
Shared expectations for behavior
What are settled times?
The right way to do things is taken for granted
What are unsettled times?
Determining the right way to do things requires deep reflection on our beliefs, values, and behaviors
Ex. COVID
What is economic capital?
Money, the more money you have the more you can invest
What is human capital?
The skills you can acquire at school
What is social capital?
The connections you made with other people
What is cultural capital?
Symbolic resources that communicate one’s social status
The things about you that communicated to other who you are
Three forms of cultural capital: objectified, institutional, embodied
What is objectified cultural capital?
Material things
The things you own, and the symbolic meanings they have, send signals about what type of person you are
What is institutional cultural capital?
Organizational endorsements
Ex. Penn diploma carries weight
What is embodied cultural capital?
The body and its capacities
How you look, what you know, what you can do
What is cultural fit?
The feeling that our particular mix of cultural capital matches our social context
When interviewing people, the interviewer looks for people that they want to get to know and want to spend time with, even outside of work
