Culture

Total lifestyle of a people (ideas, values, knowledge, behaviors and material objects)

—A complex whole which includes knowledge , beliefs, art, law, morals, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by a persons as a member of society.

Learned social heritage—.

Blueprint for how to lead life—.

Very complex phenomenon.

Categories of Elements Culture

Long established practices; unwritten laws of particular place or class.

Bundle of traditions inherited from the past—.

Sufficient weight and force in determining behavior.

Shared ideas about how the world operates.

Based on common sense, folk wisdom, religion, science etc.

Interpretations of past; explanations of present; predictions—

Ideas about good or bad; right or wrong—; abstract ideals

Rules how people should behave—; concrete ideals—; shared standards

Ordinary usages and conventions

Strong norms that have moral tones

Powerful social belief that some specific social act is utterly loathsome

Rule formally enacted by political authority and is backed by state’s power—; codified norms or rules

Rewards for conformity; punishments for nonconformity

Expression of approval given for following a norm

Expression of disapproval for breaking a norm

Something that can express or evoke meaning—; condensed representations of components of culture

—Shared set of spoken and written  symbols and rules for combining these symbols in meaningful ways

Storehouse of culture; key to cultural transmission

Analyzes cultural elements in the context of the total environment in which a society exists

Regards society and culture as performing some kind of functions which are supposed to maintain order and stability in society

Standards and practices found in every culture—; derived from common problems that natural and social environment pose for us

Tendency to judge other cultures by one’s own standard

Recognition that one culture can not be arbitrarily judged by the standards of another

Tendency for norms, values, beliefs, practices and other characteristics to complement one another; —culture must “fit together”

Norms and values that society adheres to in principle

Norms and values that society adheres to in practice

Creations of a relatively profound and serious nature that primarily appeal to, and are supported by, a fairly small and elite group

Creations of a relatively less serious and less intellectually demanding nature that primarily appeal to, and are supported by, a large audience of typical members of the society

Group that shares in the overall culture but also has its own distinctive norms, values and lifestyle

Group whose practices and values are “against the mainstream culture