Sociology-Culture
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 what is culture? | the values beliefs, behaviours and material objects that constitute a people's way of life |
| what is a bridge to the past and a guide to the future? | culture |
| symbols | anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
| language | a system of symbols that allows members of a society to communicate with one another, allows cultural transmission, shapes society, |
| values | culturally defined standards by which people assess desirability, goodness and beauty |
| beliefs | specific statements that people hold to be true |
| what colours our perceptions and forms the core of our personalities? | values and beliefs |
| norms | rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members |
| social control | various means by which members of a society encourage conformity to norms |
| multiculturalism | embodied in social policy designed to encourage ethinic or cultural heterogeneity |
| counterculture | cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society |
| cultural integration | close relationship among elements of a cultural system |
| cultural lag | uneven change among elements leading to disruption and strain |
| ethnocentrism | judging another culture by the standards of one's own |
| cultural relativism | judging another culture by its own standards |
| what is the structural functionalism view of society? | culture is essential to the functioning of society therefore resists change |
| what is the social conflict view of society? | people in power control visible minorities |
| what is the symbolic-interactionism view of socity? | we make up our "culture" through the symbols in our social interactions, therefore we define culture continiously |
| determinism | human actions are entirely controlled by previous conditions, operating under laws of nature |
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