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Culture

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1.The ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people’s way of life

2.Nonmaterial culture: ideas created by members of a society

3.Material culture: the physical things created by members of a society

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Nation

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A political entity

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Society

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Organized interaction of people who typically live in a nation or some other specific territory

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Language

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Language is a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another.
- Cultural transmission
- Sapir-Whorf thesis

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Symbols

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Humans transform elements of the world into symbols.
- Symbols: anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
- Societies create new symbols all the time.
- Reality for humans is found in the meaning things carry with them.
- Meanings vary within and between cultures.

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Norms

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Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members

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Mores

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Widely observed and have great moral significance

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Folkways

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Norms for routine and casual interaction

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Social Control

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Attempts by society to regular people’s thoughts and behavior

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Ideal Culture

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Way things should be
Social patterns mandated by values and norms

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Real Culture

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  • Way things actually occur in everyday life
  • Social patterns that only approximate cultural expectations
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Material Culture

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  • Includes a wide range of physical human creations or artifacts
  • Contains artifacts that partly reflect underlying cultural values
  • Reflects a society’s technology or knowledge used to make a way of life in particular surroundings
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Technology

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Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings

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High Culture and Popular Culture?

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  • High culture: cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite
  • Popular culture: cultural patterns that are widespread among society’s population
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Counterculture

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Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society

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Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

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Ethnocentrism
- Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

Cultural relativism
- Practice of judging a culture by its own standards

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Sociobiology: Evolution and Culture

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Sociobiology: a theoretical approach that explores ways in which human biology affects how we create culture

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Socialization

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Lifeline social experience by which individuals develop human potential and learn patterns of their culture

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Personality

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A person’s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting built through internalization

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Sigmund Freud’s Elements of Personality

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Elements of Personality
- Basic human needs: Eros and thanatos as opposing forces of basic needs

Developing personality
- The id: Basic drives
- The ego: Efforts to achieve balance
- The superego: Culture within

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Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

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Studied cognition
-How people think and understand

Identified four stages of development
- Sensorimotor stage: experience only through senses
- Preoperational stage: first use language and other symbols
- Concrete operational stage: first see causal connections in surroundings
- Formal operational stage: think abstractly and critically

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Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

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Built on Piaget’s work on moral reasoning
Ways in which individuals judge situations as right or wrong

Proposed developmental stages of moral development
-Preconventional
*Young children experience the world as pain or pleasure.
- Conventional
*Teens lose selfishness
- Define right and wrong in terms of what pleases
- Postconventional
*Final stage
*Consider abstract ethical principles

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Carol Gilligan’s Theory of Gender and Moral Development

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The two sexes use different standards of rightness.
- Boys develop a justice perspective.
*Formal rules define right and wrong.
- Girls develop a care-and-responsibility perspective.
*Personal relationships define reasoning.

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Resocialization

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Radically changing an inmate’s personality by carefully controlling the environment

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Total institution
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff
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George Herbert Mead’s Theory of the Social Self
Social behaviorism explains how social experience develops an individual’s personality The self is a product of social experience. -Self is not present at birth; it develops. - Self only develops with social experience. - Social experience is exchange of symbols. - Seeking meaning leads people to imagine other people’s intentions. - Understanding intention requires imagining the situation from the other’s point of view. - By taking the role of the other, we become self-aware.
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Erik H. Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development
Challenges occur throughout the life course Stage 1: Infancy—the challenge of trust Stage 2: Toddlerhood—the challenge of autonomy Stage 3: Preschool—the challenge of initiative Stage 4: Preadolescence—the challenge of industriousness Stage 5: Adolescence—the challenge of gaining identity Stage 6: Young adulthood—the challenge of intimacy Stage 7: Middle adulthood—the challenge of making a difference Stage 8: Old age—the challenge of integrity