SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Word Association, Ethnocentrism, Cooking Oil
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What are some of the elements of culture ? (chapter 2 culture) Hear a word and write the first thing that comes to your mind call phone party drinks transportation car. Culture definition: ideas, practices, material objects that people create to adapt and thrive in their environment textbook definition of culture: how people adapt to deal with problems. Way of life: way we think, how we act, what we know: nonmaterial (symbolic) culture beliefs, language, attitudes, etc. The norm= the generally expected or accepted way of doing things (culture guideline of behaviors) They are enforced by sanctions: reward = positive sanction (approval) 2. punishment = negative sanction (approval) example, social experiment of going into public and doing nothing. Ethnomethodology (study background assumptions, what the norms consist of and what happens when they are breached) example: video everyone"s doing it group pressure. ^asch experiment the shorter and longer lines, give the wrong answer example: video of bluetooth.
