SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 2 1
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What is culture: culture: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behavior, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next eating utensils, hairstyles, and clothing assumptions about the world) Language provides a social or shared past: without language we would have few memories, associate experiences with words and then use words to recall the experience. Language allows shared perspectives: language provides us with a social or shared past and future, distinguishes us from animals, talking about events allows us to arrive at the shared understandings that form the basis of social life. Language allows shared goal-directed behavior: common understandings enable us to establish a purpose for getting together, language permits you to blend individuals activities into an intergraded sequence. Us society: 10 sociologist robin williams identified, achievement and success, americans praise personal achievements, getting a head at work and school, attaining wealth, individualism power, prestige, american cherish the ideal that an individual can rise from the bottom.
