SOCI 100 Chapter Notes -Benjamin Lee Whorf, Edward Sapir, Culture Shock

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Debra Pentecost

Document Summary

This amazing human capacity for so many different ways of life is a matter of human culture. Culture values, beliefs, behavior and material objects that together form a people"s way of life; shared way of life, social heritage: society people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture. Human nature culture shapes how we think and feel. Non-material culture symbolic human creations (art, zen) Material culture physical creations of a society. Culture shock personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life. Every other form of life behave in a fixed and specific manner: animals are guided by instincts (biological programming) Only humans rely on culture rather than instinct to ensure their survival. Made culture their primary strategy fir survival: humans only species that names itself and deals with the world through symbols and meaning. Human beings developed the mental power to fashion the natural environment for themselves.