SOC 1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Verstehen
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Culture: it is the values, beliefs, behaviors, norms, and objects commonly shared in a society. Material culture: all the tangible things humans make and use. Non- material culture: the intangible products of human interaction. (knowledge, beliefs, values, rules for behavior, etc) Subculture: the distinctive lifestyles, values, norms, and beliefs of certain segments of the population within a society. Example: (becker"s symbolic interactionist argument about marijuana use: argued that marijuana users had to learn through social interaction how to understand and interpret the experience as enjoyable) All humans participate in culture, produce/reproduce culture. Culture varies between groups/societies (varies across time and space) The distinctive lifestyles, values, norms, and beliefs of certain segments of the population within a society. Viewing other cultures through one"s own cultural lense. Acknowledges that meanings are constructed differently in different cultures and that social scientists must understand them on their own terms.
