Ch 3 - Culture

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William Sumner
________ (1906) developed this concept → positive effects (creates in group loyalties.
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Sanctions
reactions people receive for following /breaking norms.
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Cultural Relativism
________: not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms.
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Norms
________: rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value.
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Culture
________ is the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.
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Negative sanctions
________: disapproval for breaking a norm.
- can lead to discrimination
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| Mores
________: norms which are essential to our core values.
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Non material culture
________: a groups beliefs, way of thinking, assumptions of the world, and their actions.
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| Folkways
________: norms that are not strictly enforced.
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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.
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Culture
language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects that characterise a group and are passed down from generation to generation
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Material culture
material objects that distinguish a group of people
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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
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Cultural Relativism
not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms
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Symbolic Culture
non-material culture
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Values
standards by which people assign a label to
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Norms
rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value
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Positive sanctions
approval for following a norm
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| Folkways
norms that are not strictly enforced
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| Mores
norms which are essential to our core values
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|Taboo
a norm strongly ingrained that its violation is greeted with revulsion
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