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What is culture: the sum total of human-produced values and behaviors shared by a group of people. It includes the language, knowledge, beliefs, values, norms, morals, laws, symbols, arts and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. 2 types of culture: material culture: physical, tangible things, e. g. jewelry, housing & food technologies, buildings, weapons, machines, nonmaterial culture: non-tangible aspects of culture, e. g. language, beliefs, values and gestures, culture universals: customs/practices that occur across all societies. Symbolic culture: another term for nonmaterial culture, symbols: (something to which people attach meaning and then use to communicate, gestures, language, values, norms (folkways, mores, taboo, sanctions. Pierre bourdieu & cultural capital: cultural capital: skills, manners, vocabulary, competence in language, taste etc, cultural capital reproduces social inequality. 52, table 3. 1: countercultures: groups whose values and norms are in opposition to mainstream culture, ex: outlaw motorcycle gang, counterculture don"t always express negative values; sometimes encourage over-conformity to traditional values, ex.
