Introduction to Sociology

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Introduction to Sociology

• CULTURE
• Pt 1

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What is Culture??

• Distinctive way of life of a group of people,
  their complete design for living (Kluckholm pg
  41).

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What is Culture???

• 1. Culture is learned

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What is Culture???

• 2. Culture derives from the biological,
  environmental, psychological and historical
  components of human existence

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What is Culture??

• 3. Culture is structured

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What is Culture??

• Culture is divided into aspects

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What is Culture??

• Culture is Dynamic
• Culture is variable
• Culture exhibits regularities that permit its
  analysis by the methods of science

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What is Culture??

• Culture is the instrument whereby the individual
  adjusts to his total setting, and gains the means
  for creative expression

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Defining Culture

• Extrasomatic means of adaptation passed on
  primarily (though not exclusively) through
  symbolic learning

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Understanding Culture

• Ideal Culture-refers to practices and beliefs
  that are most desirable and are consciously
  taught to children
• Real Culture-refers to the way things are
  actually done

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Understanding Culture

• Ethnocentrism-viewing ones own group and its
  cultural expectations as right, proper and
  superior to others
• Cultural Relativity-understanding a culture
  through the eyes of members of that culture and
  by its own standards..

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Understanding Culture

• When a culture affects only a small segment of a
  persons life it can be called a microculture

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Understanding Culture

• Subculture- the culture of a sub-community within
  the dominant culture of the larger society.
• a subculture can be unique, with its own ways of
  doing things but it will share the culture of the
  dominant society.