SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Cultural Lag, Subculture, Ethnocentrism
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Material culture consists of the physical or tangible creations, such as art or clothing, that are common among members of a society (72) Technology = the knowledge, techniques, and tools that make it possible for people to transform resources into usable forms as well as the knowledge and skills required to use them after they are developed (72) Nonmaterial culture consists of the abstract or intangible human creations, ex. Cultural universals = customs and practices that occur across all societies (74) All cultures have symbols, language, values, and norms (74) A symbol is something that meaningfully represents something else, ex certain clothes or. Language is a system of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and cars representing affluence (74) communicate with each other (75) Animals can use language, but their sounds represent fixed meanings instead of variable ones like human language (75) Sapir-whorf hypothesis - the idea that language shapes its speaker"s view of reality (76)
