SOC 100 Lecture 5: SOC 100 - Week of 1:24

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: holtzman

Document Summary

In order for society to function, we must: Facilitate cooperation, communication, and interactions between large numbers of people. Transmit society"s rules, beliefs, and customs to citizens in an ongoing way. Coordinate the distribution of goods, services, and resources (food, land, and information) Your actions are often determined by your statuses, roles, groups, and the institutions you interact with. Patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting that are passed from one generation to the next. Material culture: tangible aspects of our social world that shape our perceptions and behaviors. Examples: distinctive clothing, inventions, music, movies, etc. Non-material culture: intangible aspects of our social world that shape our perceptions and behaviors. Broad ideas regarding what is correct, desirable, and good. Criteria by which we judge our lives or the actions of others. Folkways: conventionally ways of acting and being. Violating a folkway is a little deal. Example: men wearing a dress, relationship with an old man and a young woman.