SOC 001 Lecture 4: Culture and Society soc001

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: The Staff

Document Summary

Culture : the learned and shared behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and material objects that characterize a particular group or society. Food/cosmetic industry, vanity (plastic surgery), freedom, american dream, 4th of july, columbus day. Transmitted from one generation to the next. Adaptive and always changing an organized population and to think of themselves as a social unit. Society : a group of people that has lived and worked together long enough to become. Material culture consists of the tangible objects that members of a society make, use, Nonmaterial culture includes the shared set of meanings that people use to interpret and share and understand the world. Symbol : anything that stands for something else and has a particular meaning for people who share a culture. Language is a system of shared symbols that enables people to communicate with one another. Directs our thinking, controls our actions, and gives us a sense of belonging. Influences how we perceive genders, races, and ethnicities.