SY101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Culture, Ethnocentrism
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The way we make sense of and give meanings to things. Components of culture: material, non-material or symbolic culture. The shared symbols seed to give meaning to what represents us: language. Allows us to construct, share and externalize meaning. Gestures, values and norms, of the social practices that come out of values sand norms. The base that all the rest is built upon. Language doesn"t simply reflect reality, it helps to construct it. Language limited the ways we can conceptualize the world. Taboos: the most strongly ingrained mores: subcultures. A distinctive culture within the larger culture. Compatible with the dominant culture: counterculture. A subculture whose values are in opposition to the dominant culture: ethnocentrism. Judging other cultures but the standards of one"s own: cultural relativism. Understanding and judging a culture and cultural practices on their own terms. What is gender socialization and how does it occur: sex is biology, biological differences, gender is the social meanings assigned, in the family.
