culture and construction

A culture is a group of people's ideas and the objects, bodies, practices, and cognitions that represent them, as well as their varying social constructs.

These constructs are learned via socialization by people around us and media.

Socialization may lead to ethnocentrism, since that’s where our values originate.

Socialization develops cultural competence, which is necessary to understand social constructions.

Social constructs are coercive social facts, including signifiers, categories, binaries, associations, sequences, and hierarchies.

All these concepts combined, connecting and opposing, create symbolic structure in culture.

Structures vary from culture to culture.

Culture refers to the cumulative culture wherein we build on previous knowledge and practices of ancestors.

Dual inheritance theory states humans are the result of genetic and cultural growth.

Cultural evolution changed the trajectory of the human species.

Culture shock occurs when we enter separate cultures, as our cultural competence is nonexistent.

Cultural values reflect what we believe is right and wrong.

Norms depend on the greater culture and our varying identities.

Resocialization occurs when we relocate or discover new aspects of our identities.

Agents of socialization include family, school, work, religion, and the media.

We also self-socialize for many social reasons.

Socialization creates social ties, and therefore social networks.

Ties can be formal or informal, strong or weak.

Our tendency to have social ties with similar people is caused by homophily.

Networks heavily influence us due to the many people connecting and socializing.

Social network analysts map these ties and identify who is connected, network size, and density to ask questions about the greater network’s function.

Socialization separate from interaction occurs in media socialization.

Social media is an important aspect as it shows us how similar others act.

We play an active role in socialization, rejecting and accepting certain ideas.

Biosocial research examines genes, hormones, and brain function to prove the effects of these concepts.

Socialization as well as culture is deeply ingrained in us.

Events can trigger emotional responses rooted deeply in culture, as proven by culture-as-value thesis.

Conflict can arise in which, usually, no one changes their mind.

Often feeling comes first and rationale second, demonstrated by culture-as-rationale thesis.

In instances of cultural conflict, we must utilize sociological sympathy.

Cultural relativism is also utilized to explain judgments in these scenarios.

These situations show slight unsettled times, but not to the extent of Covid-19.

During quarantine, we had to revise our culture, norms, values, and beliefs as there was no one to look to for guidance, leading to a collective culture shock.