Chapter 3 Test

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material and nonmaterial elements like rituals, behaviors, values that define a way of life passed on from generation to generation

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Culture

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Large grouping of people who live in same geographic area, under same political rule, subject to dominant cultural idealology

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Define Society

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Cultural material

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-Money
-Food
-Clothes
-architecture
-transportation

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Cultural Non material

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-Symbols
-language
-norms
-values

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expected sets of behavior

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Norms

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3 Types of Norms

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1) Folkways- ordinary customs
2) Mor'es- essential to a cultures survival
3) Formal Norms- laws

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standards rooted in morality good vs. bad
desirable vs. not

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Values

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10 Core American Values

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Robin Williams Jr.-
1) Individualism: that each is individually responsible for there success's or failures.
2) Material reward
3) Achievment/ success
4) activity/work
5) progress/ efficiency
6) science/ technology "face value"
7) humanitarian- charitable
8)Democracy/ Freedom - Individual freedom- highly valud
9) Equality
10) group superiority

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When material culture & nonmaterial culture do not change simultaneously creating social chaos
ex. internet porn interfering with certain laws

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Cultural Lag

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belief systems that represent the most powerful group in a society- tend to have support of all other social institutions- Education, Family, Religion

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Dominant Culture

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Dominant Culture in U.S characteristics

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-Caucasian -Male -Heterosexual -christianity -Traditional Nuclear -Capitalism -Democracy

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Dominant Culture Idealogy

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Subcultures exist in all cultures

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Culture is the "glue" that holds societies together, goal is to maintain unity and balance through general consensus, norms, values, beliefs. -

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Structural Functionalism

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Pre Industrialized

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Non industrialized

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organic solidarity- Forced dependency on strangers through the division of labor- Specialized tasks

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Industrial Society-

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constant competition for scarce resources- capitalist vs. worker- culture norms, belief systems etc. are defeated by affluent- powerful are then impaired and enforced on society

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Social Conflict Theory

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C. Wright Mills- Power Elite Model

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Military

Corp. Politic./ gov.

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Social construction of reality

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Symbolic Interactionalism-
symbols must have a shared common meaning for interaction to occur.

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Mass Media

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-T.V, newspaper, Internet, film powerful in influence in behavior, norms, values, belief systems etc.

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Media portrays-

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"Ideal Images" - perpetuating stereotypical images - can unify country/world shaped by political, economic, and social life. Norms, beliefs, values are reinforced through images

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Documentary Filmaker who produces films about gender studies and the effects of media images of women

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Jean Kilborn

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Social Construction of reality

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5 Features of Culture
1) Culture is symbolic
2) Culture is learned
3) Culture is shared
4) Culture Varies across time and place
5) rarely taken for granted very few question cultural norms

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lifelong process- Transmission of physical, mental, social skills, necessary for survival learn expectations of society, absorb/ learn culture. Form Self Development, Self Concept. Nature vs. Nurture interplay

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Socialization

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Sources/ Agents of socialization

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1) Family 2) School 3) Peers
4)Media 5) workplace) 6) sports

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Family socialization-

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1) Family- chldren come to see themselves as their parents/ Family see their dominated cultural idealogies- subculture norms, values etc.-gender-toys, Decor, Names,Speech

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School Scocialization-

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1st interaction to those of dif. backrounds, Race, social class, status

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Peer Socialization-

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"equal basis"- age, gender, social class- perpetrate the "ideal image" forces conformity

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Media Socialization- ?

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gender ?

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Religious Socialization

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patterns of behavior- values, morality, purpose, sexuality, family, birth patterns, etc- gender- the more fundamental/ conservative any religion is the more likely they are to promote traditional gender roles

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Workplace Socialization

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2/3 of a lifetime spent in workplace, social roles- "Pink Colar Occupations"

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Sports- Socialization

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Competition- Gender Roles

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Ordinary Customs

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Folkways

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Essential to a cultures survival

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Mores

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Laws

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Formal Norms

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Person who identified the 10 core american values

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Robin Williams Jr.