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Title: Culture


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Culture
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Culture shock
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Components of Culture
  • Material culture
  • Computers
  • Nonmaterial culture
  • Religion, ideas, values, beliefs, customs

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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  • World perceived with cultural lens of language

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How does culture control us?
  • Norms
  • Guidelines for behavior
  • Prescriptive should do
  • Proscriptive should not do
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • Taboos
  • Sanctions

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How do cultures change?
  • Invention
  • Discovery
  • Diffusion

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Culture lag
  • Different cultural elements change at different
    rates

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Cultural Diversity
  • Ideal VS Real culture
  • Subculture
  • Poets, musicians, Amish
  • Counterculture
  • Cultural patterns that oppose those that are
    widely held
  • Militia groups
  • New cultures
  • Immigrants (Asia and Latin America)

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Interpreting Culture
  • Ethnocentrism
  • Judging a culture by your own standards
  • Cultural relativism
  • Judging another culture by its own standards

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Cultural Universals
  • Part of every known culture
  • Heterosexuality
  • Marriage
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