SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Class, Cultural Relativism, Emic And Etic
3 Oct 2016
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Beliefs - -> particular ideas that people accept as true. Cultural capital - -> wealth in the form of knowledge. Cultural inconsistency - -> a contradiction between the goals of ideal culture and the practices of real culture. Cultural relativism - -> a worldview whereby the practices of a society are understood sociologically in terms of that society"s norms and values, and no the norms and values of another society. Culture - -> the beliefs, norms, behaviors, and products common to the members of a particular group. Doxic - -> taken for granted as natural or normal in society. Emic perspective - -> the perspective of the insider, the one belonging to the cultural group in question. Etic perspective - -> the perspective of the outside observer. Folkways - -> fairly weak norms that are passed down from the past, the violation of which is generally not considered serious within a particular culture.
