SOCL 2001 Chapter : SOCLch3
Document Summary
Culture: ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs, technology : the way we live. Page 99- the system of ideas, values, beliefs, knowledge, norms, customs, technology shared by almost everyone in a particular society. Culture and cultural elements: material culture and non material culture, our knowledge of english language is a cultural element, knowledge of computer- cultural element. Symbols and language: sapir-whorf hypothesis: symbols and language are a huge party of culture. Natural tendency we fall into; thinking our cultural is a standard. Racism- extreme form of ethnocentrism: xenocentrism- everything about your culture is bad. Japanese guy who wanted nothing to do with japan: cultural relativism- reverse of ethnocentrism; all cultures are good. That"s just their culture subculture, counterculture, and idioculture: subculture: a culture within a main stream culture, counterculture: example: gangs- hurting people for fun, idioculture: every family has one.
