Sociology CH3 culture
by ELIJAH FUNTIVEROS
1. Material culture
1.1. objects or belongings of a group of people.
2. Nonmaterial culture
2.1. consists of the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society.
3. Cultural Universals
3.1. patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies.
4. value and beliefs
4.1. values
4.1.1. a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society.
4.2. beliefs
4.2.1. peoples individual value
5. Culture
5.1. shared beliefs, values, and practices, that participants must learn.
6. Society
6.1. a group of people who share a community and a culture.
7. Ethnocentrism
7.1. evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one’s own cultural norms.
7.2. cultural imprisalism
7.2.1. the deliberate imposition of one’s own cultural values on another culture.
7.3. culture shock
7.3.1. Ethnocentrism can be so strong that when confronted with all of the differences of a new culture, one may experience disorientation and frustration. In