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Culture | Consists of beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that define society of peoples way of life |
Non-material culture | Intangible creations of human creations of human society |
Material culture | Tangible products of human society |
Language | Is a system of symbols that allows member of a society to communicate with one another |
Values | Are culturally defined standards by which people judge desirability, goodness and beauty, wand which serve as broad guidelines for social living |
Beliefs | Specific statements that people who share culture hold to e true. Values and beliefs tend to support each other |
Norms | Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members Two special types: 1. Mores: norms that have great moral significance 2. Folkways- norms that have less moral significance that ores and guide routine or casual interaction |
Material Culture | Reflects a society's TECHNOLOGY, the knowledge (and objects produced from that knowledge) that a society of people uses |
Socioculture Evolution | (Lenski) changes in organizational characteristics of society Example: size, degree of occupational specialization and degree of relative social inequality (are driven by changes in the level of technology) |
Countercultures | Are cultural patterns that strongly oppose accepted culture within a society |
Three phenomena promote cultural change | 1. Invention- the process of creating new cultural elements 2. Discovery- recognizing and understanding and idea not fully understood before 3. Diffusion- the spread of cultural traits form one cultural system to another |
Ethnocentrism | Is the practice of judging another culture by standards of one's own culture |
Theoretical analysis of culture Cultural universals | Cultural universal are traits that are found in every known culture |
Sociobiology | Is a theoretical approach that explores ways in which biological forces affect human culture. It is grounded in art in Darwin's theory not evolution |
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