SOC 153 Lecture 3: Ferrante Chapter 3: Cultures

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Jaylene Liang

Document Summary

Transcultural: alerts us to the fact that cultures do not exist in isolation. For the entire history of humanity, people from different cultures have crossed borders, boundaries, and spaces to encounter and interact with one another. Core concept 1: culture is an important, yet elusive concept that consists of material and nonmaterial components. Culture: the way of life of a people; more specifically, the human-created strategies for adjusting to their surroundings and to those creatures (including humans) that are part of those surroundings. Material culture: all the natural and human-created objects to which people have attached meaning. Beliefs: conceptions that people accept as true, concerning how the world operates and where the individual fits in relationship to others. Non-material culture: the nonphysical creations that people cannot hold or see. Values: general, shared conceptions of what is good, right, appropriate, worthwhile, and important with regard to conduct, appearance, and states of being.