SOC-2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dominant Ideology, Dominant Culture, Family Values
22 Sep 2016
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Culture everything that is not found in the natural environment. Culture is a way of thinking, acting, and material objects that connect us. Culture: shapes our actions, forms personalities, shared and learned, symbolic, varies across time/space, tells us what is normal. Culture shock experience embarrassment/disoriented/awkward when you lack knowledge of what to do in an unfamiliar social situation: ex: visiting another country. Material culture physical objects produced by someone in a culture: ex: tools, clothing, art, housing, etc. Nonmaterial culture the ideas of a culture. Material and nonmaterial culture are connected one can lead to the other. Both material and nonmaterial culture don"t have inherent meaning society assigns meaning to them. Ideology belief system that shows an understanding of cause and effect, tells the status quo. Dominant ideology the widely held and enforced ideology of a society: ex: american dream. Dominant culture the main culture of a society, ideas and practices shared by most people living in a society.
