Symbols & Languages
Anything that meaningfully represents something else.
What are symbols?
Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and describe or undesirable in a particular culture.
What are values?
Activities usually partronised by the elite: ex. classical music,opera,ballet
What is high culture?
Hutterite life is centered on the community rather than on the individual.
What lifestyle do Hutterites centre on?
Formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced by formal sanctions.
What are laws?
A set of symbols that express ideas and enable to think and communicate with one another.
What is language?
Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct.
What are norms?
1.Fads
2.Fashions
3.Leisure Activities
What are the three prevalent forms of popular culture?
A subculture is a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society.
What is subculture?
Equality and fairness in a democratic society.
What is one of the core Canadian Values?
1. flags
2.colours
3.animals
4.hand gestures
5.body language
What are examples of symbols?
1.Proscriptive norms
2.Prescriptive norms
What do norms consist of?
Activities, products and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes.
What is popular culture?
The Hutterites are considered a subculture because their values, norms, and appearance differ significantly from those of members of the dominant culture.
Why are the Hutterites consider a subculture?
Written down and involve specific punishment for violators. Laws are the most common type
What are formal norms?
Whether language creates or simply communicates reality.
What is one key issue in sociology ?
Contradictions are values that conflict with one another mutually exclusive
What is value contradictions?
1. object fads
2. activity fads
3. idea fads
4. personality fads
Types of fads.
Centered on the community rather than on the individual.
What is centered of Hutterite life
Cultural change takes place in all societies. Change occurs through discovery and invention and through diffusion, which is the transmission of culture from one society or group to another
What causes cultural change in societies?
1. The english language ignores women by using the masculine form to refer to human beings in general.
2. Use of the pronouns he and she affects our thinking about gender.
3.Words have positive connotations when relating to male power, prestige, and leadership; when related to woman, they carry negative overtones of weakness, inferiority and immaturity.
What is the relationship between language and gander?
They make everyday life more predictable and provide people with some guidelines for appearance and behavior.
The relationship between Folkway&Mores with society
One of our most important human attribute, it allows us to share our experiences, feelings and knowledge.
What are leisure activities?
Called "colonies," in Western Canada and the United States where they practice their religious beliefs and maintain a relatively closed social network.
How to called the Hutterites live on farms
Cultural universals are customs and practices that exist in all societies and include activities and institutions such as storytelling, families, and laws. Specific Forms of another, however.
What are cultural universals.