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What is culture and one characteristic?
- Def: The social heritage of a people
- Chara: Learned patterns for thinking, feeling and acting that are transmitted from one generation to the next through material and nomaterial means
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What is Society?
Group of people who live with the same territoy and share a common culture
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what is Norms?
Social Rules that deal mostly with sex, property and safety
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What is mores?
Important norms
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Folkways
Less stringent norms
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Laws
Formal norms enforced by threat of force
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What are Values?
Broad ideas shared by members of a socity regarding what is desirable, correct, and good
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what is symbols?
Acts or objects that, in society, tand for omething else
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what is language?
Socially structured system of sound patterens with specific and arbitrary meanings
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What is Ethnocentrism?
Judging behavior of other groups by standards of our own culture
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Culural relativism
Viewing behavior of people from perspective of their culture
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Subculture
Members who participate in main culture of society while sharing number of unique valus, norms, traditions, and lifestyles
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Counterculture
Subculture at odds with its parent society
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Social Structure
interweaving of people's interactions and relationships in more or less recurrent stable patterns
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Status
A position within group or society
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Ascribed Status
Assigned by group of society
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Achieved Statues
secured on basis of individual choice and competition
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Master status
core status that carries primary weight that carries primary weight in person's interactions and relationships with others
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Roles
Sets of culturally defined rights and duties
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Role Performance
Actual behavior of the person who occupies a statues
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Role set
Multiple roles attached to a single status
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Role Conflict
Results when individuals are confronted with confliciting expectations stemming from simultaneous occupancy of two or more statuses
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Role strain
Occurs when individuals find the expectations of a single role incompatiable that they have difficulty performing the role
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Role Exit
Occurs when people stop playing roles that have central to their lives and to their social identies
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Groups
Two or more people in stable patterns of social interaction and a sense of unity
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Aggregate
Collection of anonymous individuals who are in one place at the ame time
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Category
collection of people who share a characterisitic or havior pattern deemed to be of social significance
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Institution
principal social structure that organizes, directs, and executes essential tasks of living
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