Sociology 1025A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: William Fielding Ogburn, Edward Sapir, Culture Shock

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Culture: the sum total of the social environment in which we are raised and continue to be socialized throughout our lives. Cultural universals: common practices shared by all societies (***think universal across al cultures. Social heritage (william fielding ogburn): the common cultural world into which children of a particular group are born. Material culture: tangible or physical items that people have created for use and give meaning to in a given culture. Ex. food, art, forms of housing, transportation, clothing, tools, electronic devices. Nonmaterial culture: intangibles produced by intellectual or spiritual development; also, the use of artifacts in a given culture (meanings people attach to artifacts) Ex. language, knowledge, symbols, customs, morals, beliefs, practices that help organize and give meaning to our social world. Culture shock: a sense of disorientation and confusion as a result of being placed in unfamiliar surroundings where aspects of the material and nonmaterial culture are new o unknown.

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