SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ralph Linton, Cultural Relativism, Symbolic Culture
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Culture: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next. Material culture: things such as jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, etc. No(cid:374)(cid:373)aterial (cid:272)ulture: a groups (cid:449)a(cid:455) of thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g (it"s (cid:271)eliefs, (cid:448)alues, a(cid:374)d other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language, gesture, and other forms of interaction). Each country, religion etc. has different (cid:449)a(cid:455)s of li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, (cid:374)either (cid:272)usto(cid:373) is (cid:862)right(cid:863) Except in unusual circumstances, most characteristics of our own culture remain imperceptible to us. (cid:862)the last thi(cid:374)g a fish (cid:449)ould e(cid:448)er (cid:374)oti(cid:272)e (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e (cid:449)ater(cid:863) ralph linton, anthropologist, Fundamental orientations that we have acquired throughout our lives are considered culture within us- learned and shared ways of believing and doing. Culture shock: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their-taken for- granted assumptions about life.
