1. Culture

2. What is culture?
Culture consists of all the shared values, beliefs and practices of human groups

3. Material Culture The physical objects that people create and use
Examples:
Automobiles
Books
Buildings
Clothing
Cooking utensils

4. Non material culture Abstract human creations Examples: Beliefs Ideas
Languages
Political & Economic systems
Rules
Work practices
Non material culture

5. Many people will use culture & society interchangeably
Society: a group of people who have organized and share a common culture and feeling of unity

6. Society vs. Culture
Culture represents beliefs and practices of a group of people
Society represents the people that make up those groups
Can’t have one without the other – although different
A number of different types of Culture together make up a Society

7. components of culture

8. Knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes
Technology

9. Anything that represents something else and has a shared meaning attached to it
Symbols

10. Organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system
標準化されたシステムへの書かれていたか、または話されていた記号の構成。
Η οργάνωση των γραπτών ή προφορικών συμβόλων σε ένα τυποποιημένο σύστημα.
Organisationen av skriftliga eller talade symboler in i ett standardiserat system.
Language

11. Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable
Values

12. Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations.
Norms

13. Folkways
Mores
Laws
Taboos
4 Main Types of Norms

14. Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them
Examples:
Shaking someone’s hand you just met
Not burping at the dinner table
Folkways

15. Have great moral significance attached to them – not necessarily against the law though
Examples:
Religious doctrines like premarital sex
Lying
Cheating on someone
Mores

16. Laws Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government
Examples:
Laws

17. Norm held by a society or culture so strongly that a violation typically results in extreme disgust
Examples:
Racist comments
Child Abuse
Eating Pork in Muslim countries
Taboos