SOCI 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Lag
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Peoples actual behavior, which often falls short of their cultural ideals. Objects such as art, buildings clothing, weapons and tools. A group"s ways of thinking and its patterns of behavior. Language, beliefs, values, norms, and material objects that they pass from one. The central component of nonmaterial culture is symbols. Language allows the human experience to be goal-directed, cooperative and cumulative. Groups use positive sanctions to show approval of those who follow their norms and negative sanctions to show disapproval of those who violate them. A group whose values and related behaviors distinguish its members from the. Holds some values that stand in opposition to those of the dominant culture. Use their own culture as a yardstick for judging ways of others. Understand other cultures in those cultures own terms. Gestures, language, values, norms, sanctions, folkways, and more. Made up of many groups, each with its own set of values.
