SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Reality, Ethnocentrism, Culture Shock
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Language is a very important, measurable aspect of culture. Culture refers to 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. While a society is made up of people, a culture is made up of ideas, behaviors, and material possessions. Culture includes: how we think, how we act, what we own. In effect, everything we create with our hands and our minds. Material culture refers to the physical creations that members of a society make, use, and share. Everything from zippers to our homes and satellites in space. Nonmaterial culture consists of the abstract human creations of society that influence people"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Culture shapes not only what we do but also what we think and how we feel-elements of what (cid:449)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)ly, (cid:271)uy (cid:449)ro(cid:374)gly, des(cid:272)ri(cid:271)e as (cid:862)hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:374)ature(cid:863)
