SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Jews, Subculture, Indecent Exposure
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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture. Reality for humans is found in the meaning things carry with them. Meanings can even vary greatly within the same groups of people (swastika to american. A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another (i. e. the alphabet) Cultural transmission: the process by which one generation passes culture to the next (i. e. stories gabi hears about guatemala from her parents, reading history books) Sapir-whorf hypothesis: people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language. Some cultures see the thumbs up as the middle finger) Values: culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, and beauty, which serves as broad guidelines for social living: values support beliefs. Beliefs: specific statements that people hold to be true. Robin williams (not comedian) gave 10 widespread values that are central to our american way of life: equal opportunity (work hard and you will have equal opp.
