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Unit 1 Lecture 3: Culture
What is culture?
- Culture (def.): the learned set of practices, beliefs, values, and rules for proper behavior, and material objects that are shared by members of a society
- culture is a universal feature of human social life
- culture is learned
- culture is shared
- culture is cumulative
Three components of culture:
- Cognitive component (how we think)
- language
- symbols
- values
- society?s beliefs (Weltanschauung, world hypotheses, and domain assumptions)
- understanding of reality
- Normative component (how we act)
- norms
- folkways (group habits, customs)
- mores (moral imperatives)
- Material component (what we make)
- artifacts
- art
- architecture
- other material objects that a society creates and to which it assigns meanings
Ethnocentrism (making judgements about other cultures from the perspective of one's own culture)
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