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What is the literary art that uses language for its aesthetic and evocative qualities?
Poetry
What is a form of narrative that deals with events that are not factual, but rather imaginary and invented by its author?
Fiction
What is the art form that records performances visually?
Film
What is a performance by a comedian in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them?
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What is a musical style that originated in African American communities in the Southern United States, mixing African and European music?
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What is the term used to describe the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture?
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What is an example of a cuisine?
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Study Notes
Definition of Sociology
- Sociology is the science of society, social institutions, and social relationships.
- It is the systematic study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behavior of organized groups of human beings.
Definition of Culture
- Culture refers to all the ways of life, including beliefs and institutions of a population, passed down from generation to generation.
Types of Culture
- Material culture: physical aspects of a society, including objects made or modified by humans (e.g. money, tools, weapons, utensils, machines, clothing, ornaments, art, buildings, monuments).
- Non-material culture: ideas, beliefs, social roles, rules, ethics, and attitudes of a society (e.g. languages, dress codes, etiquette, rituals, business and social transactions, religion, laws, punishments, values).
Elements of Culture
The Arts
- Encompasses visual arts, literary arts, and the performing arts.
- Subcategories include:
- Clothing: fashion, jewelry.
- Gastronomy: the art and science of good eating, including the study of food and culture.
- Food preparation: act of preparing foods for eating.
- Cuisines: specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a specific culture.
Literature
- Art of written works.
- Subcategories include:
- Children's literature: stories, books, and poems for children.
- Fiction: narrative that deals with events that are not factual, but rather imaginary and invented.
- Non-fiction: narrative that presents factual information.
- Poetry: literary art that uses language for its aesthetic and evocative qualities.
- Critical theory: examination and critique of society and culture.
Performing Arts
- Forms of art that use the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium.
- Subcategories include:
- Circus: performance of a company of clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze artists, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists, and other object-manipulating and stunt-oriented artists.
- Comedy: any discourse or work intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter.
- Stand-up comedy: performance by a comedian in front of a live audience.
- Dance: art form of movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music.
- Film: moving pictures, recording performances visually.
- Theatre: collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present an experience before a live audience.
- Music: art form with sound and silence as its medium.
- Music genres:
- Jazz: musical style that originated in African American communities in the Southern United States, mixing African and European music traditions.
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Learn about the basics of sociology, the science of society, social institutions, and social relationships. Explore the study of human behavior, social interactions, and culture.
