Reflection

Ch.2 Culture diversity and conformity :

Section 1 the meaning of culture

The meaning of culture: culture is made up of all the shared

products, both material culture and nonmaterial culture.

What is the difference between society and culture?

Society is a group of interdependent people who have organized

in such ways as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.

Society consists from people , and culture consists of material and

nonmaterial product that people create .

What are the components of culture?

Culture is both learned and shared .

While specific products are differ between cultures .

1-technology: society’s culture consists of not only physical

objects but also the rules for using those objects . sociologists
refer this combination of objects and rules ( technology) .

2-symbols: is anything that is used to represent anything else.

3-language: it is the organization of written or spoken symbols

into a standardized systems.

4-values : are shared believes about what is good or bad , right

or wrong, desirable of undesirable.
The types of values held by a group help to determine the
characteristics of its people and the kind of culture they create.

5-norms: are shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act
in specific situations.