Culture:

- People's unique customs and beliefs

- Describes a group's way of life; what they are feeling and doing

Ideational Defenition of Culture:

- Distinguishes the ideal from the real, cognitive, not behavioral or materialistic
- The knowledge
- Ideal
- What people should do according to values and norms
- Real
- What people really do according to cultural values

- Cultural universals
- Basic needs
- Need to belong

American core values

Success
Progress
Efficiency and Practicality
Freedom

Folkways:
- Customs
Norms
- Rules and standards of culture
Mores
- Informal norms based on morals
- Laws
- Formal Codified norms
Sanctions
- A reaction
- Positive
- Reward cultural conformity
- Negative
- Chastise violations
Taboo
Theoretical

- Structural-functional perspective
- Provides structure to what we
- Wear
- Eat/Drink
- Say
- Rituals / Rites of Passage
- Conflict Perspective
- Views the way in which culture is used to oppress and dominate people
- Fashion/Style
- Classes/SES
- Politics
- Religion
- Interactionist Perspective
- Views how the meanings are created through symbolic rituals
- Cultural events are socially constructed by human interpretation

Subcultures

A portion of the population that, while sharing some of the ways dominant culture, has its
own

Countercultures
Hippies

Culture Shock
- Feelings of confusion and disorientation experienced when a person encounters a
different culture

Cultural Diversity
- Multiculturalism
- Encourages appreciation and respect for cultural differences