SOCI-1015EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Diversity, Ethnocentrism, High Culture
20 Jun 2018
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Module Two — Chapters 3 & 11
Chapter Three — Culture
Culture: The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from
person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
Material Culture: A component of culture that consists of the physical or tangible creations (such
as clothing, shelter, and art) that member of a society make, use, and share.
Technology: Tje knowledge, techniques, and tools that allow people to transform resources into
a useable form and the knowledge and skills required o use what is developed.
Nonmaterial Culture: A comment of culture that consists of the abstract or intangible human
creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs and values) that influence people’s behaviours.
Cultural Universals: Customs and practices that occur across al societies.
Symbol: Anything that meaningful represents something else.
Language: A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate
with one another.
Sapir-Whord Hypothesis: The proposition that language shapes the view of reality of its
speakers.
Values: Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable
in a particular culture.
Norms: Established rules behaviour or standards of conduct.
Sanctions: Rewards for appropriate behaviour or penalties for inappropriate behaviour.
Folkways: Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious
consequences in a particular culture.
Mores: Strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without
serious consequences in a particular culture.
Taboos: Mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even
unmentionable.
Laws: Formal, standardized norms have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced by
formal sanctions.
Cultural Lag: William Ogburn’s term for a gap between the technical development of a society
(matieral culture) and its moral and legal institutions (nonmatieral culture).
Discovery: The process of learning about something previously unknown or unrecognized.
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Document Summary
Culture: the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. Material culture: a component of culture that consists of the physical or tangible creations (such as clothing, shelter, and art) that member of a society make, use, and share. Technology: tje knowledge, techniques, and tools that allow people to transform resources into a useable form and the knowledge and skills required o use what is developed. Nonmaterial culture: a comment of culture that consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society (such as attitudes, beliefs and values) that in uence people"s behaviours. Cultural universals: customs and practices that occur across al societies. Language: a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another. Sapir-whord hypothesis: the proposition that language shapes the view of reality of its speakers.
