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