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What is Culture? |
Socially transmitted ideas, practices, beliefs, values,symbols, and material objects that people create todeal with real-life problems |
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ABSTRACTION: Creating Symbols |
• We create symbols or general ideas that carryparticular meanings • Language is a system of symbols strung together tocommunicate thought • Important source of continuity and identity in aculture • Spread of English globally has led to manyendangered languages |
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
• We experience important things in our environmentand form concepts about those things • Develop language to express our concepts • Language itself influences how we see the world |
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COOPERATION: Creating Norms andValues |
• We create a complex social life by establishing normsand values • Norms are agreed upon expectations and rules bywhich a culture guides the behaviour of its membersin any given situation • Values are ideas about what is right and wrong, goodand bad, beautiful and ugly... |
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FOLKWAYS |
• Customs • Standards of behaviour that are socially approved butnot morally significant • Norms for everyday behaviour that people follow forthe sake of tradition or convenience • Examples: cultural forms of dress or food habits |
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MORES |
• Strict norms that control moral and ethical behaviour • Norms based on right and wrong, good and bad • Morally significant; people feels strongly about themand violating them typically results in disapproval • Examples: Cohabiting before marriage • Taboo is a norm that society holds so strongly thatviolating it results in extreme disgust • Examples: Incest, cannibalism |
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LAWS |
• Norms that are written down and enforced by anofficial law enforcement agency • Legal sanctions associated with laws • Deviance involves breaking a norm and evoking anegative reaction • Crime is deviance that breaks a law |
