Beliefs and Culture

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Beliefs and Culture

• Describe how beliefs shape our culture
• Examine difference between material and
  nonmaterial culture
• Analyze cultural change and groups within
  cultures

2
Nonmaterial Culture

• Beliefs, ideas, knowledge
• Beliefs- ideas about nature of reality
• No life on Mars
• Egyptian Pharaohs were gods

3
Material Culture

• Concrete objects cars, art, basketball
• Objects have no meaning or use apart from what we
  give them
• Nettling- pg 93

4
Real Ideal Culture

• Ideal Culture- cultural guidelines publicly
  embraced by society
• Real Culture- actual behavior patterns
• Conflict
• Honesty
• Marriage
• Why does culture change????

5
Cultural Diversity

• Social Categories- characteristics such as age,
  sex, gender, religion
• Religious people expected to go to church
• Subculture- Chinatown, circus people, musicians
• Counterculture- deliberately opposed to beliefs
  attitudes of dominant culture

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Cont.

• Ethnocentrism- judge others against your own
  culture
• Cultural Universals- aspects in all cultures-
  sports, cooking, music.

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How do schools and parents fail teens?

• Support Groups
• Competition in Schools
• Cultural Expectations
• Pg 96-97