Culture Notes – Chapter 3.1
... -NORMS: social rules about how people should act (values are the general ideas that support the norms) Example: picture on pg. 53. Our ancestors placed a high value on fertility (having kids) when you get married. There developed a norm of showering a bride with rice after a wedding. We continue to ...
... -NORMS: social rules about how people should act (values are the general ideas that support the norms) Example: picture on pg. 53. Our ancestors placed a high value on fertility (having kids) when you get married. There developed a norm of showering a bride with rice after a wedding. We continue to ...
Culture
... • Questions we usually ask ourselves in a new situation: – How do we act? Are going to do anything that can be seen as rude? Etc. ...
... • Questions we usually ask ourselves in a new situation: – How do we act? Are going to do anything that can be seen as rude? Etc. ...
Sociological Analysis of Culture
... According to functionalist theorists, societies where people share a common language and core values are more likely to have consensus and harmony All societies, however, have dysfunctions Inequalities among class, racial and gender lines contribute to ...
... According to functionalist theorists, societies where people share a common language and core values are more likely to have consensus and harmony All societies, however, have dysfunctions Inequalities among class, racial and gender lines contribute to ...
Chapter 3 Culture
... C. Culture is very recent and was a long time in the making. D. What sets primates apart is their intelligence. Human achievements during the Stone Age set humans off on a distinct evolutionary course, making culture their primary survival strategy. E. The concept of culture (a shared way of life) m ...
... C. Culture is very recent and was a long time in the making. D. What sets primates apart is their intelligence. Human achievements during the Stone Age set humans off on a distinct evolutionary course, making culture their primary survival strategy. E. The concept of culture (a shared way of life) m ...
Sociology – Mr. Bunner -
... C. Culture is very recent and was a long time in the making. D. What sets primates apart is their intelligence. Human achievements during the Stone Age set humans off on a distinct evolutionary course, making culture their primary survival strategy. E. The concept of culture (a shared way of life) m ...
... C. Culture is very recent and was a long time in the making. D. What sets primates apart is their intelligence. Human achievements during the Stone Age set humans off on a distinct evolutionary course, making culture their primary survival strategy. E. The concept of culture (a shared way of life) m ...
ANG 6186 (Section 6184) - Anthropology at the University of Florida
... movements and engagements between bodies re-construct the material world. The course adopts a viewpoint that considers the “archaeology of the present,” particularly how contemporary human bodies have been conceived and perceived by anthropologists. It is therefore not strictly or even predominantly ...
... movements and engagements between bodies re-construct the material world. The course adopts a viewpoint that considers the “archaeology of the present,” particularly how contemporary human bodies have been conceived and perceived by anthropologists. It is therefore not strictly or even predominantly ...
Culture
... communication using vocal sounds, gestures, and written symbols, is probably the most significant component of culture because it allows us to communicate. Language is so important that many have argued that it shapes not only our communication but our perceptions of how we see things as well. ...
... communication using vocal sounds, gestures, and written symbols, is probably the most significant component of culture because it allows us to communicate. Language is so important that many have argued that it shapes not only our communication but our perceptions of how we see things as well. ...
Cultural Geography Defined and Supported
... often employ the historical perspective as well as the geographic perspective. A single cultural phenomenon can be studied geographically. A cultural geographer might be concerned solely with one of the eight culture elements listed above. A typology of social structures could be borrowed from anthr ...
... often employ the historical perspective as well as the geographic perspective. A single cultural phenomenon can be studied geographically. A cultural geographer might be concerned solely with one of the eight culture elements listed above. A typology of social structures could be borrowed from anthr ...
Chapter 3
... incest taboo, cannibalism, etc. These are actions where the mere thought of them disgusts people in that society. ...
... incest taboo, cannibalism, etc. These are actions where the mere thought of them disgusts people in that society. ...
Program for a Sociology of Sport - American Kinesiology Association
... spaces of sports.) These are things that one understands all too quickly. The work of the sociologist consists of identifying the socially pertinent properties that make for an affinity between a given sport and the interests, tastes, and preferences of a definite social category. Thus, as Jean-Paul ...
... spaces of sports.) These are things that one understands all too quickly. The work of the sociologist consists of identifying the socially pertinent properties that make for an affinity between a given sport and the interests, tastes, and preferences of a definite social category. Thus, as Jean-Paul ...
Shepard 10e PPTs chapter 3_web
... significance. If they are not followed, the sanctions are very minor (e.g., use of a cell phone in a restaurant, or in class). Mores (MOR-ays) – norms/rules with great moral significance. Seen as vital to the wellbeing of society. Violation will evoke strong ...
... significance. If they are not followed, the sanctions are very minor (e.g., use of a cell phone in a restaurant, or in class). Mores (MOR-ays) – norms/rules with great moral significance. Seen as vital to the wellbeing of society. Violation will evoke strong ...
Culture - SchoolRack
... standards of beauty, hand gestures, styles of dress, food, and music. • Culture is learned. It is passed from one generation to the next through communication—not genetics. ...
... standards of beauty, hand gestures, styles of dress, food, and music. • Culture is learned. It is passed from one generation to the next through communication—not genetics. ...
Sociology and Current Affairs
... • Mores and folkways make dealings with others more orderly and predictable • Social control—attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior – Help to give people a conscious – “Downloading a term paper on the internet” can cuase some guilt – Mark Twain—people “are the only animals th ...
... • Mores and folkways make dealings with others more orderly and predictable • Social control—attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior – Help to give people a conscious – “Downloading a term paper on the internet” can cuase some guilt – Mark Twain—people “are the only animals th ...
Cultural Variation
... – were they a result of inherited characteristics OR from cultural differences. ...
... – were they a result of inherited characteristics OR from cultural differences. ...
Chapter 2
... efficient means to achieve given goals and the unintended, negative consequences of doing so. Mechanical clocks have led to the maximization of time, but also what is often described as a too-hectic life. ...
... efficient means to achieve given goals and the unintended, negative consequences of doing so. Mechanical clocks have led to the maximization of time, but also what is often described as a too-hectic life. ...
The Cultural Formations of Modern Society
... Culture as shared Culture as the practices which meanings and ways of life produce meaning. Focus ...
... Culture as shared Culture as the practices which meanings and ways of life produce meaning. Focus ...
Ch. 4-Culture
... procedures for the accomplishment of tasks) and popular culture spread through media but values are assimilated more slowly creating cultural lag. Cultural lag-a delay in cultural adjustments to changing social conditions. Material culture changes faster than nonmaterial culture. When culture change ...
... procedures for the accomplishment of tasks) and popular culture spread through media but values are assimilated more slowly creating cultural lag. Cultural lag-a delay in cultural adjustments to changing social conditions. Material culture changes faster than nonmaterial culture. When culture change ...
Chapter 2 - Reading Community Schools
... Ethnocentrism- the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals & societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, & behaviors. Huh? My culture is better than yours b/c you do weird things. Can help bind a people togethersince they ...
... Ethnocentrism- the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals & societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, & behaviors. Huh? My culture is better than yours b/c you do weird things. Can help bind a people togethersince they ...
as country of birth, geographic origin, language, religion, ancestral
... I. Because of the increased likelihood of people of different cultures communicating with each other, culture, culture shock, and intercultural communication are important concepts to understand. A. Culture shock is the psychological discomfort of adjusting to a new cultural situation. B. Intercultu ...
... I. Because of the increased likelihood of people of different cultures communicating with each other, culture, culture shock, and intercultural communication are important concepts to understand. A. Culture shock is the psychological discomfort of adjusting to a new cultural situation. B. Intercultu ...
Culture - The CSS Point
... Cultural Relativism- is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. Cultural Integration- The process of one culture gaining ideas, technologies and products of another and so this means that this culture ...
... Cultural Relativism- is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture. Cultural Integration- The process of one culture gaining ideas, technologies and products of another and so this means that this culture ...
Communication as a Form of Pluralism
... Constantin Noica said that the past with its accumulations of millenniums (Greek culture is itself developed for more than a millennium) offers creations, myths or even rituals, as human experiences that are sedimented and that cannot be found or redone in every single generation. It is said that no ...
... Constantin Noica said that the past with its accumulations of millenniums (Greek culture is itself developed for more than a millennium) offers creations, myths or even rituals, as human experiences that are sedimented and that cannot be found or redone in every single generation. It is said that no ...
ANTH 325 Tensions in Urban China: Culture, Politics, and Public
... Examples: Sociology of Coffee; Tainted baby formula scare ...
... Examples: Sociology of Coffee; Tainted baby formula scare ...
Resurrecting the subaltern
... In Bourdieu, for the most part, habitus and symbolic violence fit the embodied individual, the social body, seamlessly into social structure, so that social reality appears most of the time as ordered and coherent, and domination becomes natural and invisible. This is how Bourdieu resolves the oppos ...
... In Bourdieu, for the most part, habitus and symbolic violence fit the embodied individual, the social body, seamlessly into social structure, so that social reality appears most of the time as ordered and coherent, and domination becomes natural and invisible. This is how Bourdieu resolves the oppos ...
Father of “American Cultural Anthropology” “Aims of Anthropological
... Reveals the intricate interrelationship of all peoples of ...
... Reveals the intricate interrelationship of all peoples of ...