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TYPES OF CULTURE
MATERIAL NON-MATERIAL
CULTURE CULTURE
INCLUDES ALL THE INCLUDES ALL THE
TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE PARTS OF
VISIBLE PARTS OF CULTURE, WHICH CONSIST
OF VALUES, IDEAS, AND
CULTURE.
KNOWLEDGE.
CHARACTERISTICS
OF CULTURE
oCulture Is Learned
oCulture Is Shared
oCulture Affects
Biology
oCulture Is Adaptive
oCulture Is Dynamic
SYMBOL
oIS ANYTHING THAT
REPRESENTS MORE THAN
ITSELF/ANYTHING THAT
CARRIES A SPECIFIC
MEANING.
LANGUAGE
oSPOKEN OR WRITTEN
WORDS
oIT GIVES A SENSE OF
IDENTITY
VALUES
oAre Abstract Ideas
Of What Is
Desirable Correct
And Good.
BELIEFS
oSpecific Ideas
About What People
Think Is True.
NORMS
are the standards and
expectations for behaving.
XENOCENTRISM ETHNOCENTRISM
SOCIOLOGY
Scientific study of
society, including
patterns of social
relationships, social
interaction and
culture.
Society
oA group of people
sharing the same identity
and culture and a
territory.
are sets of
expectations
Is an
individual’s
position in
his or her
society.
SOCIALIZATION
Refer to the process by which an SOCIAL INTERACTION
individual is oriented and taught THIS IS A COMPILATION OF WAYS AND MEANS BY WHICH
HUMANS INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER WITHIN THE
by his or her society’s norms. CONFINES OF A SOCIETY.
TYPES OF STATUS