SOCL 2001 Chapter : Outline 3 Ch 3
Document Summary
Culture: everything we create as we establishing our relationships with nature and with each other. Society: structure of relationships with which culture is created and shared through patterns of social interaction. Cultural universals: common practices/beliefs shared by different societies, ex: religion, sports, cooking, medicine, marriage, sex taboos (incest) Invention: combining existing cultural items into something that didn"t exist before, tools. Examples: diffusion- spread of culture, leak- mass media, travel, internet, globalization- borders more porous, culture flows more freely, domination- western ideas tend to dominate over other cultural areas- colonization. Material: physical modification of the natural environment to suit our purposes, technology- cell phones, vehicles, architecture- art, paintings, monuments, buildings, cultural lag: gap when nonmaterial cultural struggles to adapt to new conditions of material cultures. Cognitive: mental and symbolic representations of reality, nonmaterial form of culture. Informal norms- not written but understood (urinal example)
