Soc 001 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I Cultural definition II Five Constitutes of Culture III Chapter 7 Reading Assignment Outline of Current Lecture IV Clickers V Complexity of Culture VI Material culture VII Nonmaterial culture Current Lecture Clicker Question 1 When we say our culture is complex we mean our culture o Has a lot going on o Foundational culture definition determines how we see the world Cultures are complex o Notecard activity o Everyone has different talents hobbies and skills o More that is not in common between people than what is in common o Our culture is made by people o Therefore our culture is made up of a lot of complex things Culture definition examples o Society a bunch of people Society does not mean culture o Culture distinctive ways of life o Two main components of culture Material culture Nonmaterial culture Nonmaterial culture dictates material culture Material Culture physical things made by people artifacts o Toothbrush o Socks o Shoes o Coffee maker o Razor o iPhone o CATA busses These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Even something like a walking stick that fell from a tree once it is picked up by a person and is held by someone becomes material culture Nonmaterial Culture intangible stuff o Symbols Handicapped symbol Feminist American flag Cycling Skeletons Pirates Poison Colors aka pink feminism red danger stop o Language o Norms socially accepted rules on what to do and what not to do Do not wear white shoes after Labor Day Wear underwear on the inside of your pants Speed limits Folkways Casual Norms Don t talk with your mouth full Wear underwear on the inside of your pants Mores important rules Don t kill people Do not commit adultery Taboos even the thought of violating these rules makes people uneasy Do not eat dead people do not eat human flesh cannibalism Do not sleep with your mother Don t wear red to the OSU football game PSU specific o Values o Beliefs Clicker Question 2 Culture is made up of material and nonmaterial elements Ways to group cultural practices within a culture o Culture Mainstream everyone does thinks and knows it o Subculture ways of living that differ form the larger culture Pittsburgh sandwich with fries inside of it Ex Code of the Street o Counterculture ways of living that set them apart from society that are in opposition to the dominant culture and are perceived as threatening Ex street families o Idioculture small groups which do not have enormous amounts of individuals within them Share specific knowledge beliefs behaviors and customs that set them apart from the rest Ex Little League baseball team The code of the street
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