SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 3 And 4
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A group of interacting persons who live in a specific geographical area who are organized in a cooperative manner and who share a common culture. A system of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms, customs and technology shared by most everyone in a society. This is a society"s system of common heritage. High culture: reflects taste of the wealthy affluent and upper class people. Folk culture: reflects taste of working class and ethnic grps. Popular culture: music art dance radio linguistic trends literature that produced and consumed by members of lower and middle class. Cultural elements: of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms, customs and technology symbols: this is something that is used to represent something else. Sapir-whorf hypothesis pg 81 ex. banana, empty sign on barrel of gas. Basis of our judgement: (good v bad) (pretty v ugly) Inconsistencies: value v behavior (ex. freedom of press) Ritual: one mechanism to support a value ex. ritual dance in rwanda.
