1. Part 3: Cultural Variation

2. What do we have in Common?
Cultural Universals: common features found in all cultures
1940’s study results: Body adornment, cooking, dancing, family, feasting, forms of greeting, funeral ceremonies, gift giving, housing, language, medicine, music, myths/folklore, religion, sports and toolmaking

3. Ethnocentrism/Cultural Relativity
The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture
Culture Shock: Personal disorientation accompanying exposure to an unfamiliar way
Cultural Relativity:
The practice of evaluating any culture by its own standards

4. Subculture
DEFINITION: cultural patterns that differentiate some segment of a society’s population
Can be based on:
Age, residence, sexual preference, ethnicity and occupation

5. Counterculture
DEFINITION: cultural patterns that strongly oppose conventional culture
Likely to question the morality of the majority group & to engage in some form of protest
Examples:
KKK
Black Panthers
Hippie Movement
Feminists

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18. Cultural Change Cultural change is continuous Cultural Lag:
Cultural elements change at varying rates; often disrupts a cultural system

19. Cultural Change Causes of cultural change: Social Movements
Invention/Technological Advances
Population Changes
Physical Environments
Diffusion- Globalization