ANP 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Culture Shock, Cultural Capital, Ethnocentrism
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Society is a system of interdependent parts ( all parts contribute to order) Identify the groups that benefit( and how they maintain those benefits) and those that do not benefit. Symbolic interactionist perspective: self awareness, shared symbols, negotiated order. Shared strategies for adapting and responding to ones surroundings. Things that all cultures have in common (trees) Specific practices that distinguish cultures from one another. Consists of all natural and human created objects to which people have assigned a name and meaning. Values: shared conceptions between what is good or right. Norms: written and non written rules that specify behaviors. Symbols:word or object people assign a name or meaning to. No 2 languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as the same social reality. Capture cultural variety that exists among people who share some physical or virtual space: material components (object, nonmaterial components (values/beliefs) Elicits broad consensus among members but allows debate about meaning.
