Culture - Unit 3 Sociology

Culture, Unit 3, Sociology

Culture

Includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Material

Implements, tools, tangible things

Non-material

beliefs, values, and rues of behavior

Norms

behaviors that are generally agreed upon, rules within a culture

Mores

More serious norms

Folkways

Less serious norms

Cultural Lag

When one part of the culture changes faster or slower than another part of the culture.

Cultural Diffusion

When one part of the culture spreads to another.

Prosocial Behaviors

Occurs when people act to benefit other and the broader society rather than just themselves.

Anti-social behaviors

Occurs when the person or group does harm to others or put their own interest above that of the community.

Durkheim and Putnam

Social integration changes with industrialization and post industrialization.

Real Culture

How you actually are

Ideal Culture

What you think or expect culture to be

Ethnocentrism

Thinking that your own culture is more normal, ideal, and superior.

Cultural Relativism

Thinking cultures should be judged based on their own norms/standards

Cultural Universal

Something that exist in every culture