Socio Ch 3

Def: Complex behaviour that are in born, automic, unvarying, and universal, providing the organism is development naturally and the environment provides stimulus.

Ej: Immigration

• * In born - genetically heritage
• * Automatic - imulsive, expontaneous
• * Unvarying - enduring, flexible
• * Universal - all member of the species.

• 1. Organism must be develp mentally mature.
• 2. Environment must provide an adequate stimulus (proper conditions)

Ej: mouse nest (all together) - no sex / homosexuality btwn male

• - Survival: do what it takes to preserve the specie (offspring) [ choice]
• " To be or not to be. Thats the question"

- Parenting: skill-based a choise.

- Sex: highly structured n rule-governed

Products of social living that are learned, shared, and transmitted from generation to generation.

Are physical, tangible reminders of a ppl.

• Ej:
• cloth - tradition
• architecture - church, status, piramids, music
• food
• technology - yoyo, bumerang, insulin

• Social standars of evaluation
• Enduring
• Hierarchical
• Resistant to change
• Not equally shared by everyone

End points, aspirations, goods ambitions.

• " Peace, order, and good goverment."
• " Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness."
• "Success"

• Legitimate means to the end, socially accepted.
• Legitimate = codes of conduct, admirable qualities = the ideal friend, worker, partner.

Greert Hofstedet (1928)

• 5 dimentional framework for assesing cultures.
• General tendencies range:
• individualism - colectivism
• personal - centred group focused
• sharing & competition : we/us/ I/ me

Power distances : degree to which ppl accept the unequal distribution of power; egaliatirian hierarchical.

Ej: masculinity vrs feminine

• Rules & regulations/ settings/ situations
• Formal & informal
• Vary in degree of importance/ enforcement
• *folkways - tradicional/ customs
• *mores - vital morals & ethical sig (sex/religion)
• *laws - official rules

• -Mental products (non empirical)
• -Beliefs-faith based " truths"
• (myths, good and evil, after life)
• * provides order, structure, meaning
• * give directions, rules
• * sense of control over one's fate, minimize feeling of helpness
• * very powerful influence over many of life concerns (politics n social policy, health)

• - Roles:
• * achieve status (earn)
• * ascribed status (assigned- royalty,gender)

• - Sanctions:
• * rewards and punishments (abnormalities/extrange)
• * means of social control, to maintain order, conformity
• * appropiate to the deviation.

• Relatively shared of system of symbols
• (English language all but different vocabulary)

Mere representation of ideas, objects, events.

• - Have shored meaning amoung users
• - Important binding agents
• - Very powerful

• Identity
• Adapt :
• * physical (technology help - transportation)
• * social (norms, rules, values - bring us together)
• * unknow (why re we here, meaning - religion)

• - Ethnocentrism: culture that believe that they are supperior than other cultures. [Hittler]
• - Cultural Contamination (globalization): disrupt of traditions.
• - Cultural lag (adjustment) : industralization/ bio-enginiring.
• - Consumerism: depletion of resources, waste
• - Passing on of ignorance: [witch]