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the knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects passed in a human group or society
material culture: tangible or physical creations
nonmaterial culture: intangible (attitudes) |
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| knowledge, techniques and tools that allow people to transform resources into a usable form and the knowledge and skills required to use what is developed |
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| phenomena that exist in every society |
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| a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate |
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| language shapes the view of reality of its speakers |
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| formal means of social control |
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| collective ideas about what is good/bad in a particular culture |
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| norms - folkways, mores, taboos |
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| established rules of behavior |
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william ogburn
socially not accepting new technology |
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| learning about something previously unknown |
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| finding a new way to use an old discovery |
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| cultural practices jump between cultural groups |
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| group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ from mainstream culture |
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| fundamentally at odds with mainstream culture |
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| the disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own |
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| the tendency of people to think of their own culture as inherently superior |
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| one culture cant be arbitrarily judged by the standards of another |
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