Components of Culture
What are example of culture patterns
American athletics Agriculture Education Religion Manufacturing
Non material
Beliefs, morals, ideas, family traditions, language, rules, skills, work practices
Material
Cars, books, clothes, building, computer
What are culture complexes
Cluster of culture traits explaining the culture pattern
Technology
Combination of having physical object and know how to use it
What is an example of mores
Dishonesty Fraud Murder
What is the most important cultural universal?
FAMILY Also funerals, greetings, language, music, myths, sports, cooking and tool making
What are the 3 norms
Folkways Mores Laws
Countercultures
Groups that reject the major values, norms of the larger society
Mores
Have a great deal of moral significance
What are culture traits
Individual tool, act or belief that describes the culture complex
Cultural relativism
Judge culture by their own standards rather than by applying the standard of another culture
Folkways
Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have a moral significance attached to them
Language
Organization of written or spoken symbols in a standardized system
What is an example of folkways
Shaking hands eat with mouth closed Cover mouth when cough
Values
Shared beliefs about what is good/bad or right/wrong or desirable/undesirable
Culture
Shared products of himan groups Both material and nonmaterial
What are the norms
Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in certain situations
What are the two variations in society
Subculture Counterculture
Ethnocentrism
Tendency to view ones own culture and group as superior
Symbols
The basis of human culture to communicate
What are cultural universals
Things all humans have in common Basic feature that need to be developed for society to function
Subculture
Unique cultural characteristics that are not shared by entire population
Laws
Written rules of conduct by the government
What are the 4 components of culture
technology Symbols Language Values
