What is culture
-ideas, values, material objects that allow a group to carry out their lives in relative order and harmony
What are the 4 broadest elements of culture?
General abstract standards
What society consideres good/important
Express ideal
Youth
What are norms?
How to behave in accordance with what society has defined as good, right, and important
What are the types of norms describe
Mores: important norms whose violation is met with a servere negative sanction
Folkways: norms of less importance
What is material culture:
Artifacts that are reflections of culture
Ex, clothes, homes, technology,toys
What is symbolic culture?
Non material culture
I.e langue allows for storage, development of culture.
What is ideal culture?
What norms and values of society lead us to think people should believe and do
What’s real culture?
What people think and do in their everyday life.
What are the 3 cultural differences? Describe
-ideology, set of shared beliefs that explains the social world and guides people’s actions.
-counterculture, group of people who are set apart from the dominant culture. I.e KKK,hippes
-Multiculturalism, value asserting cultural differences as a worthy of acceptance and recognition.
What is assimilation?
When the dominant culture makes the minority adapt to its values and norms
What is culture relativism
The idea that a culture needs to be understood within the context of that culture.
