HUMNNTR 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Change, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Lag

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It changes whenever something new is added to society. We don"t have to decide in each encounter with others what to do, we already know because of socialization. Subcultures: group that are set apart by something different: there are two types of culture: material and non-material, non-material refers to the abstract, beliefs, values, and norms that influence people"s behavior. Symbols are anything that represents something else to more than one person. If an object has a meaning to only one person it is not a symbol. A symbol is anything that at least two people agree represents something other than itself: group = 2+ people. Symbols are powerful because we react to them as though they were real. Language is an organized set of symbols. Norms are rules for behavior. (william sumner: vary by culture, vary within culture (subculture), change over time. 1: there are three types of norms:

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