SOCIOL 110 Chapter 3.1&3.2: Culture and Elements of Culture

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Jonathan R.Wynn

Document Summary

Summarized and organized from introduction to sociology 2e, on openstax. Chapter 3. 1&2 what is culture & elements of culture. Society: [people who live in a definable community and share a culture] Material culture: objects or belongings of a group of people. Metro passes and bus tokens are part of material culture] Nonmaterial culture: ideas, attitudes, beliefs of a society. Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies. Ethnocentrism: [evaluate or judge another culture based on how it compares to one"s own culture norms. : often involve the view that one"s own culture is better than anyone else. Cultural imperialism: [the deliberate imposition of one"s own cultural values on another culture. ] Cultural relativism: [the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one"s own culture] Value and beliefs: value: [a culture"s standards for discerning what is good and just in society]