5 Concepts
The concept that involves language, norms, values, knowledge, symbols, and physical objects
Sociology is the scientific study of ____ and human behavior
What is society?
This component of culture can be written, spoken, or non-verbal
What is 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
What is 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)
What are sanctions?
The hippies of the 1960s fit into this type of culture
Counterculture
Traits that exist in all cultures (ex. education, family, food, etc)
What are universals?
Refers to patterns of social behavior and helps to explain relationships between individuals and groups in society
What is social structure?
This theory focuses on the tensions between groups and how power shapes societies
What is Conflict Theory?
This is the component of culture that includes clothes, foods, and architecture.
What is material culture? (physical objects)
Culture of the elites in a society
What is high culture?
The internet, cell phones, the wheel, and the printing press are all changed cultures through what
What is invention?
The way a person's actions are related to their environment
What is social action?
Three major concepts in this theory are manifest functions, latent functions, and dysfunction.
What is Functionalism?
This is a norm that isn't always illegal but has strong ties to morals and values
What is a more?
What is low/popular culture?
_________ is when you judge cultures based on the standards of your own culture
What is ethnocentrism?
This concept refers to the way parts of a system work together. Each part needs to contribute for the whole thing to work.
What is functional integration?
This is an important theorist in Conflict Theory
Who is Karl Marx?
This is the system of beliefs that norms are based on
What are values?
Type of culture that is practiced by traditional groups, often in isolation (ex. Lakota oral traditions)
This is the way a culture expresses a universal trait
What is a cultural particular?