SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Pound Sterling, Computer Keyboard
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Nonmaterial culture is different first of all because it is made up of intangible things and these intangible things also vary from simple to complex. Our ideas about truth and beauty, about happiness and boredom, about what is funny and what is not, about right and wrong all these are part of nonmaterial culture. So, too, are the words with which we express these ideas. We can divide up nonmaterial culture into five basic categories: A symbol is anything that represents something else to more than one person. Each of these marks is a symbol because it stands for something other than itself. A is not a paragraph, but merely symbolizes a paragraph. Some objects are symbols in that they mean something other than themselves. In the english language of flowers, giving someone a red rose means something different from giving someone a lily.
