SOCL 2001 : Exam 1 Study Guide Part 2
Document Summary
Nonmaterial culture- includes the shared set of meanings that ppl in a society use to interpret and understand the world. S y m b o l s is anything that stands for something else & has a particular meaning for ppl who share a culture. L a n g u a g e is a system of shared symbols that enables ppl to communicate w/one another. V a l u e s are the standards by which members of a particular culture define what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly. Folkways are norms that members of a society see as not being critical and that may be broken without severe punishment. Mores are norms that members of a society consider very important b/c they maintain moral and ethnical behavior.
