Ch 3 - Culture

William Sumner

________ (1906) developed this concept → positive effects (creates in group loyalties.

Sanctions

reactions people receive for following /breaking norms.

Cultural Relativism

________: not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms.

Norms

________: rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value.

Culture

________ is the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.

Negative sanctions

________: disapproval for breaking a norm.
- can lead to discrimination

| Mores

________: norms which are essential to our core values.

Non material culture

________: a groups beliefs, way of thinking, assumptions of the world, and their actions.

| Folkways

________: norms that are not strictly enforced.

Culture shock

________: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different group of people and can no longer depend on their granted assumptions about life.

Culture

language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects that characterise a group and are passed down from generation to generation

Material culture

material objects that distinguish a group of people

Culture shock

the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different group of people and can no longer depend on their granted assumptions about life

Cultural Relativism

not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms

Symbolic Culture

non-material culture

Values

standards by which people assign a label to

Norms

rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value

Positive sanctions

approval for following a norm

| Folkways

norms that are not strictly enforced

| Mores

norms which are essential to our core values

|Taboo

a norm strongly ingrained that its violation is greeted with revulsion