SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Lag

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: silva

Document Summary

All numbers added together and divided by the total amount of numbers. Median: middle number in a list of numbers. Culture: the learned and shared behaviors, belief, attitudes, values, and material objects that characterize a particular group or society. Society: a group of people that has lived and worked together long enough to become an organized population and to think of themselves as a social unit. Culture is transmitted from one generation to the next. Cultural universals custom and practices that are common to all societies, but we don"t all practice them the same way. All cultures include bodily adornments, dancing, food taboos, ideas about. Cultures differ in the expression of the universals modesty, and expectations for mourning. Material culture consists of the tangible objects that members of a society make, use, and share. Examples include jewelry, pottery, clothing, and furniture. Nonmaterial culture includes the shared set pf meanings that people use to interpret and understand the world.