SYG 1000 Lecture 6: Outline Ch3_ Culture
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Material what you can pick up on w/ the senses . Folkways: customary ways of acting that lack moral overtones ( common courtesies ) Mores: norms of huge moral significance; defying = strong disapproval *not all mores are laws* b. Sanctions (ways that we enforce rewards rewards & punishments) a. b. Material (anything you can pick up from your senses) *same physical object can have different meanings in different cultures* Ideal (guidelines we claim to accept; what we say we do ) vs real (actual behavior. Subculture (group that"s part of the dominant culture but differs from it in some. Counterculture (subculture that is deliberately opposed to some aspect of the dominant culture) Ethnocentrism (judge others based on your own cultural standards) Cultural relativism (norms, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors are not themselves right or wrong but rather they should be judged in their own cultural context) *vestehen,
