SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: East Los Angeles College, Economic Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Culture: all that human beings learn to do, to use, to produce, to know, and to believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they belong. The norms, values, beliefs, behaviors, and meanings given to symbols in a society. Culture can be either material or nonmaterial. Material culture: human technology -- all things human beings make and use, from tools to skyscrapers. Nonmaterial culture: consists of the totality of knowledge, beliefs, values, and rules for appropriate behavior. Values: a culture"s general orientations toward life - notions of what is good and bad, what is desirable and undesirable. The ideas associated with the meaning and use of material culture or physical objective. Nonmaterial culture can be manifested in tangible ways. The battle royal: starbucks vs. dunkin" donuts. Social norm: (nonmaterial culture) the rules that a group uses to determine appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
