1. It touches almost every aspect of who and what we are
Culture
It touches almost every aspect of who and what we are

2. Culture Orientation
Have you ever experienced culture shock?

3. What is culture? Culture
The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next
Who has traveled somewhere and seen different cultures based on this definition?

4. Material vs. Non-material
Material culture: jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing
Non-material culture: a group’s way of thinking (including beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (it's common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction)

5. Material vs. Non-material
How do the two distinguish culture, please provide me with a few examples!

6. Establishment of culture
Culture comes to us at a very early age and acquire it without conscious
It creates assumptions about social life in context to others’ cultures
Creates the “way things ought to be” idea
Examples might include hygiene, eye contact, personal space, etc.

7. Culture Shock
Culture shock emerges when non-material culture fails one’s self
Story example of the author being taller and pushing to buy tickets and felt bad about it

8. Ethnocentrism
Tendency to use one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individual or societies.
It generally leads to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors leading to discrimination
On the positive side, it can create in-group loyalties

9. Cultural Shock Exercise
Listen to the following excerpt on the arrival of the Hmong and answer the question for your consideration after

10. Cultural Relativism Culture is deeply rooted
It is by definition: not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms
Bullfighting in Spain example

11. Culture Diversity Exercise
You are what you eat!

12. Symbolic Culture Symbols help us attach meaning ABC’s, 123’s
Include gestures,
values, norms,
sanctions, folkways
and more

13. Gestures Using your body to convey messages
hand and body gestures have different meanings in different cultures
By show of hands, how many of you are left-handed?
What about the “A-OK” sign… what does that mean?

14. Language
Symbols the can be combined in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought
Language allows culture to exist!
Consider the following…

15. Language (cont.) It allows human experience to be cumulative
Builds on experiences and modify behaviors in light of past generations
Without language we would not be any more advanced then by grunts and gestures

16. Norms and Values
Values are ideas of what is desirable in life and by which people define what is good and bad
They guide our choices
The golden rule is universal
What other values are universal?

17. Norms
Norms are used to describe expectations that develop out of a groups’ norms
Sanctions help show expressions of approval or disapproval for following or breaking norms
Homework and MAT…

18. Sanctions Non-verbal sanctions Verbal sanctions
Frowns, stares, raised fists, finger gestures
Verbal sanctions
Harsh words, censorship

19. Subcultures What condition is this doctor describing??
[It accompanies] diaphragmatic pleurisy, pneumonia, uremia, or alcoholism…Abdominal causes include disorders of the stomach, and esophagus, bowel diseases, pancreatitis, pregnancy, bladder irritation, hepatic metastases, or hepatitis. Thoracic and mediastinal lesions, or surgery may be responsible. Posterior fossa tumors or infarcts my stimulate centers of the medulla oblongata.

20. Subcultures
Hiccups!
Definition of subculture is the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture, a world within a world

21. Subcultures k

22. Subcultures A world within the larger world of the dominant culture
What subcultures are there at Howard High School?
What other subcultures are you aware of?

23. Counterculture
Consider the following quote about sterilization

24. Counterculture A group whose values, beliefs, and related
behaviors place its
members in
opposition to the
broader culture

25. U.S. Values
Sociologist Robin Williams identified in a study underlying core values 14 different values most Americans can agree with
Which ones do you think are most important?

26. Thinking Critically Sociobiology
Framework of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considers biological factors to be the fundamental cause of human behavior