SOCL 2001 Chapter : 05-Sep
Document Summary
Language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, material objects passed across generations. Material culture art, clothing, hairstyles (objects that people use to distinguish one group from another) Nonmaterial culture beliefs and values, language and gestures. Almost always follow it without question until we see how someone else of another culture lives. Sociological imagination requires understanding culture"s influence on people"s lives. Shapes who we are religion, love, use of space. Culture becomes the lens with which we perceive those around us in society. Ethnocentrism using one"s own culture to judge other societies and individuals. Attempting to understand a culture on its own terms. Ex: children"s roles (it hasn"t been that long since we decided that child labor was unacceptable) Symbol something to which people attach meaning and use to communicate. Nothing universal about meanings given to sounds that why we have so many different languages. Pass ideas, knowledge, and attitudes to the next generation.
