Culture Shock - ✔️✔️Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's
surroundings.
Language - ✔️✔️System of symbols that allows people to communicate with one
another. It is the key to cultural transmission.
Sociology - ✔️✔️Systematic study of society
Symbolic interactionists - ✔️✔️A framework in which society is viewed as composed of
symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and
communicate with one another
Max Weber - ✔️✔️Believed the central force in social change was religion.
Culture - ✔️✔️Beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that, together, form a
people's way of life.
Material Culture - ✔️✔️The material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as
their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry.
Nonmaterial Culture - ✔️✔️A group's way of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and
other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior,
including language and other forms of interaction); also called symbolic culture
Sapir-Whorf Thesis - ✔️✔️Language shapes thought and perception.
Norms - ✔️✔️Rules of behavior
Mores - ✔️✔️Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Folkways - ✔️✔️Norms for routine, casual interaction
Subculture - ✔️✔️Cultural patterns that distinguish some segments of a societies
population.