SOC 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Culture Shock, Social Forces, Ethnocentrism

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Is one of the fundamental elements of social life and. Culture thus a very important topic in sociology. You need to think about how culture is relevant to the things you already know from your own life experience. Culture : the entire way of life for a group of people. 2. forming the basic beliefs and assumptions about the world and the way things work and defining the moral parameters of what is right and wrong. Culture : the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society. It is hard for us to see our own culture, so we may not recognize the extent to which it shapes and defines who we are. It includes things such as language, standards of beauty,