Understanding Culture Society (week 1-2)
In-Group
a social unit in which individuals feel at home and with which they identify themselves
Out-Group
a social unit to which individuals do not belong due to differences in social categories and with which they do not identify.
Language
is the most powerful of all human symbols as it allows us to communicate with one another.
Material culture
the physical things created by members of a society
Special Interest Group
A group which is organized to meet the special interest of the members
Task Force
A group is assigned to accomplish jobs which cannot be done by one person.
Anthropology
A social science that is concerned with human culture as well as the physical and social characteristics that create that culture.
Gesselschaft
A social system in which most relationships are impersonal, formal, contractual or bargain-like
Gemeinschaft
A social system in which most relationships are personal and traditional
Informal Group
Arises spontaneously out of the interactions of two or more persons
Group
Gives an individual a sense of identity as well as emotional intimacy.
Secondary Group
Group with which the individual comes in contact later in life
Multiculturalism
If culture respects cultural variations.
Primary group
It is the most fundamental unit of human society
Sociology
The scientific study of human society, its origin, structure, function, and direction.
Social Organization
The type of collectivity established for the pursuit of specific aims or goods
Social Group
Those who interact with one another and share similar characteristics and possess a sense of unity
Assimilation
When your culture is dominant, and it absorbs subcultural and countercultural groups.
aggregate
a collection of people who happen to be at the same place at the same time but who have no other connection to one another.
category
a collection of people who share a particular characteristic.
Symbols
are cultural representations of reality.
Values
are the standards by which we assess goodness, acceptability. beauty or desirability.
Society
consists of people who interact to share a common culture
Culture
everything that is made, learned, or shared by the members of a society, including values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects.
Sub-cultures
exist in small cultural groups but differ in some way.
Non-material culture
is intangible but this influences our behavior like our language, beliefs, values, rules Of behavior, family
Norm
is a rule that guides our behavior
Organization
is an orderly relationship or arrangement of parts.
Technology
is one component that makes our life easier.
Nurture
refers to your childhood, or how you were brought up
Nature
refers to your innate qualities or nativism while nurture is your personal experiences.
Sociological Imagination
the concept of being able to "think ourselves away" from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew.
Ethnocentrism
which involves judging other cultures against the standards of one's culture
Cultural relativism
which says that a culture should be sociologically evaluated according to its standards, and not those of any other culture.
