Sociology - Culture PDF
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This document provides a general overview of culture, including material and non-material aspects, social values, prescriptive and proscriptive norms, mores, and folkways. It also describes sanctions, subcultures, countercultures, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism.
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Culture: the knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person from 1 generation to the next in a human group or society. Broken down into material and non material Material culture: things and objects that have no meaning. Non material culture: symbol...
Culture: the knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person from 1 generation to the next in a human group or society. Broken down into material and non material Material culture: things and objects that have no meaning. Non material culture: symbolic culture, social constructions. Social values: they are collective ideas about what is right and wrong good and bad and desirable and undesirable sometimes culture values contradict Proscriptive: rules on what you should not do Prescriptive things that you should do Mores: major norms that are very serious if you violate them Folkways: not severe violation of norms Sanctions for violation: they way people treat you after you violate a norm a way to keep people in line with norms Laws: used to enforce more Subcultures: a small lower culture apart of a bigger culture Counter cultures: a type of sub culture that defines themselves intentionally conflicting from the greater general group. Ethnocentrism: that the way of your culture group is central and superior. Cultural relativism: looking at other cultures and just saying it’s different.
