Cultural Symbols and Meanings

Anything that carries particular meaning recognized by people who share the same culture.

. Culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, beauty and many other things that serves as board guidelines for social living

. A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another.

Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.

Specific statements that people hold to be true.

The two types of norms are?

Because we share culture with other members of our group, we are able to act in socially appropriate ways as well as predict others will act.

It is not biological: we do not inherit it.

This is known as holism, or the various parts of a culture being interconnected.

A symbol is something that stands for something else.

This simply means that cultures interact and change.