SY101 Chapter Notes -Ethnocentrism, Cultural Lag, Animal Culture
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The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. The material culture jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, machines, hairstyles, and clothing. Nonmaterial culture ways of thinking, beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world. Nonmaterial culture symbolic culture: symbols that people use to communicate. The use of one"s body to communicate with others. A system of symbols that can by strung together in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought. Language allows human experience to be cumulative: we pass ideas, knowledge, and even attitudes on to the next generation. Language provides a social or shared past and future. Language and perception: the sapir-whorf hypothesis: alert us as to how extensively we are affected by language, reverses common senses. Suggests that rather than objects and events forcing themselves into our consciousness, our language determines our consciousness, and our perceptions of objects and events.
