SOC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnic Group, Peer Pressure, Culture Shock
21 Oct 2016
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Culture: language, values/customs, material objects passed from person to person. Culture shock: personal disorientation that comes from encountering an unfamiliar way of life *no cultural trait is inherently (cid:498)natural(cid:499) to humanity: what is natural to our species is the capacity to create and learn cultural traits. Symbols: anything that meaningfully represents something else to others: words, Numbers, pictures, colours, gestures, facial expressions, etc. (symbolic meanings vary and. Language: set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and. Communicate with one another, it is the keystone to human culture (means of cultural. Values: collective ideas about what is good and bad, provides criteria on how we. Material objects: tangible things created by members of society; artifacts, tools, Technology that we develop and use (all our interactions are mediated through objects of. Material culture: tangible human creations such as tools, artifacts and technology. Non-material culture: intangible human creations such as symbols, values, norms, etc.
