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Yanomamo
- small groups (around 50 ppl)
- hunting and gathering society
- do not have a written language
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Hunting and gathering (up to 12,000)
- get more good from gathering
- when all food is gone in that area they move to a different place
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Horticultural (12,000-10,000)
- growing the same crops over and over so they can stay on that land
- eventually the soil gives out and they have to move again
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Pastoral (10,000-5,000)
- breed animals for food
- have job spealizatrion
- there are more ppl and they will grow taller
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Agricultural/agrarian
some ppl jobs have nothing to do with producing food
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Industrial
- growth and rise of cities
- mechanical means of production
- ex. tractors, factories
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Urbanized
- population increases and mobes to the sities
- people going to stores and schools
- majority of the population lives within 50-100miles of a major city
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Postindustrial
most valuable commodity is electronically supplied information and a huge growth in service sector
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Mass societies
- Large
- People no longer live with their families until they are married
- meet ppl that they dont know
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Culture
- everything made learned and shared by members of a society
- Norms, values, material, non-material
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Dominant culture (WASP)
- factors: white, middle class, male
- the culture that has the most
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WASP
white anglo saxon protestant/male
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sub-culture
- a way of living different from dominant but NOT in opposition to it
- dominant and sub more or less get along
- Jews, hispanics, catholics
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counter- culture
- a way of living different from dominant and IN opposition to it. Dominant and counter dont get along
- one will try to get rid of the other
- ex. terrorist, nazis
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material culture
- something that you can see or touch
- its tangible
- live for cars, houses, etc. but NOT alot of it
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materialistic culture
- the accumalation of things (buying ALOT of stuff)
- judge ppl by what they have
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non-material culture
- something that you cant see
- beliefs, values, integrity, etc
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american values
- freedom of religion
- believe in equality
- believe in personal freedom
- and individuality
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culture shock
the suprise that comes from the experincing another culture
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melting pot
people from all different countries migrate to one place and ppl learn each others ways and there becomes a new type of american
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Pluralism
has more than one culture (US is a pluralistic society)
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assimilation
to become part of a culture and some originally charateristics are lost
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culture lag
one part of a culture progress more slowly than another part of that culture
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cultural diffusion
when a differnt culture spreads around another culture
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ethnocentrism
the value/belief that your culture is superior
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cultural relativism
when you realize an aspect of culture makes sense in that culture
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norm
- what is normally expected for ppl to do.
- they change overtime and differ from place to place
- differ according to the setting
- ex. church, party
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folkway
- (norm)
- expectation based on convience or tradition
- ex. do them without thinking
- behavior
- putting underwear in the top drawer
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more
- (norm)
- expectation based on morality (sense of right and wrong)
- ex. living together before marriage ppl get upset
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law
- (norm)
- has to be written down and has consequences
- cerain groups or agencies to make sure ppl are following the law
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taboo
- (norm)
- so strong that if you break a taboo it can get you kicked out of the group
- ex. marrying out of your culture
- keeping the secrets of sororities or fraternities
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deviant
- somebody who violates norms
- somebody who doesnt do what they are supposed to or something that isnt normal
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