SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Culture Shock, Cultural Lag, Ingroups And Outgroups
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What is culture: focuses on attributes people acquire not through biological inheritance but by growing up in a distinct community. Material culture: jewellery, art, building styles, machines, clothing. Non material culture also referred to as symbolic culture: ways of thinking, beliefs, values, assumptions, symbols of ways people communicate. Gestures: the use of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)ody to (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)ate, meanings can change through different cultures. Saphir-whorf hypothesis: alert us on how extensively we are affected by language it suggests that rather than objects and events forcing themselves into our consciousness, our language determines our consciousness. Values: ideas of what is desirable in life. Positive sanction: expression of approval given for a following a norm. Negative sanction: denotes disapproval for breaking a norm. Money, prize, hug: we expect people to comply with folkways but we are likely to shrug our shoulders and not make a big deal out of it.
