Culture-
● Definition-
○ Ideas, values, material objects
■ Organize collective life
■ Immersed in
■ Evolving, life long process
● Ex:
○ Cell phone laws
○ Marijuana legalization
The components of culture
● Material culture- see or touch
○ Clothes
○ Toys
○ Food
● Non- material culture- invisible
○ Values
○ Beliefs
○ Norms
○ Language
● Cultural universals- all societies
○ Role of family
■ Socialize belonging
● Social lag- introduction/ acceptance app
○ Speed of technology
Cultural terms to be familiar with
● Ethnocentrism
○ one culture is superior
● Xenocentrism
○ another culture superior
● Cultural Imperialism
○ imposing on another culture
● Culture Shock
○ anomie within culture
● Cultural Relativism
○ understood with context
● Definition-
○ Ideas, values, material objects
■ Organize collective life
■ Immersed in
■ Evolving, life long process
● Ex:
○ Cell phone laws
○ Marijuana legalization
The components of culture
● Material culture- see or touch
○ Clothes
○ Toys
○ Food
● Non- material culture- invisible
○ Values
○ Beliefs
○ Norms
○ Language
● Cultural universals- all societies
○ Role of family
■ Socialize belonging
● Social lag- introduction/ acceptance app
○ Speed of technology
Cultural terms to be familiar with
● Ethnocentrism
○ one culture is superior
● Xenocentrism
○ another culture superior
● Cultural Imperialism
○ imposing on another culture
● Culture Shock
○ anomie within culture
● Cultural Relativism
○ understood with context
