5 Concepts
The concept that involves language, norms, values, knowledge, symbols, and physical objects
Culture
Sociology is the scientific study of ____ and human behavior
Society
This component of culture can be written, spoken, or non-verbal
Language
Chinatown, student athletes, Midwesterners, and Christian denomination are examples of this type of culture
Subcultures
________ ________ is when parts of one culture expand into other cultures (ex. hamburgers and hot dogs in "American" food come from Germany)
Cultural diffusion
A boss and the president both fit under this concept
Power
This theory is focused on how individuals and societies place meaning on symbols
Symbolic Interactionism
This is the way that norms are enforced (can be positive or negative and formal or informal)
Sanctions
The hippies of the 1960s fit into this type of culture
Counterculture
Confusion or surprise at elements of an unfamiliar culture
Culture shock
Refers to patterns of social behavior and helps to explain relationships between individuals and groups in society
Social structure
This theory focuses on the tensions between groups and how power shapes societies
Conflict Theory
This is the component of culture that includes clothes, foods, and architecture.
Material culture
Culture of the elites in a society
High culture
The internet, cell phones, the wheel, and the printing press are all changed cultures through what
Innovation
The way a person's actions are related to their environment
Social action
Three major concepts in this theory are manifest functions, latent functions, and dysfunction.
Functionalism
This is a norm that more formal and is written/clearly stated
More
Type of culture that is practiced by most people in a society
Low/popular culture
_________ is when you judge cultures based on the standards of your own culture
Ethnocentrism
This concept refers to the way parts of a system work together. Each part needs to contribute for the whole thing to work.
Functional integration
This is an important theorist in Conflict Theory
Karl Marx
Informal type of norm
Folkway
Type of culture that is practiced by traditional groups, often in isolation (ex. Lakota oral traditions)
folk culture
Understanding cultures within their own context and without influence from your own cultural perspective
Cultural relativism