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Quick Review. Explain in your own words what culture is and what it embodies. What is the difference between material and non-material culture? Can Culture change over time? Why/Why not?. Carriers of Culture. Language, Values, and Norms. Language.

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  1. Quick Review • Explain in your own words what culture is and what it embodies. • What is the difference between material and non-material culture? • Can Culture change over time? Why/Why not?

  2. Carriers of Culture Language, Values, and Norms

  3. Language • -The ability to communicate with symbols, orally, or in writing. • Sociolinguistics- examines the relativity of language to Culture. • 1)Language embodies culture • 2)Language is a framework • 3)Language is a symbol • Does English fulfill the 3 characteristics listed above?

  4. Language Embodies Culture… • You have to share the language in order to participate in a culture. • If you lose the language, you lose the culture. • Ex: Native Americans, Jewish Culture

  5. Language as a Framework • Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis • Grammar, structure, and categories embodied in each language effects how its speakers see reality, therefore, reality is different for different languages. • In order to change perception, change the word you use. • Ex: Black- African American, or White- Caucasian

  6. Language as a Symbol • Language is the most obvious sign of a shared culture. • It symbolizes group separation from others AND • It symbolizes unity within the group of speakers • Ex: French and Italian, youth • Can you come up with any examples?? • SO does the English fulfill the 3 characteristics?

  7. Carrier of Culture- Values • Values-Shared ideas about desirable goals. • Besides language, the most central and distinguishing aspect of culture • Typically states whether something is good or bad, desirable or undesirable. • Ex: Happy Marriage is good and desirable, but do our values tell us what a happy marriage consists of?

  8. Values… • Universal Values- • All humans face common dilemmas, so values evolved across humanity. • Stability, Security, Strong Family, Good Health • HOWEVER, there are different ways to fulfill these values. • What do we call the guidelines in place for obtaining values?? Norms…

  9. Carrier of Culture- Norms • Norm- • Shared rules of conduct that specify how people ought to feel, think, and act (Culture is our blue print for life.) • Ex: brushing your teeth, bathing, getting dressed, going to school… the list can be overwhelming. • Vary in importance • Fashion doesn’t last • Democracy and Monogamy are central • 2 kinds: Folkways and Mores

  10. Folkways • Norms that are the customary, normal, habitual way that a group does something. • Cover relatively permanent customs • Fireworks on the 4th of July • Cover Fads • Tongue Piercing • **There is no strong feeling of right and wrong attached to each folkway. If you violate it, people just think you are weird.**

  11. Mores (More- ayz) • Mores are norms associated with strong feelings of right and wrong. • Ex: Eating your dog, spending the last dollar on a video game when you need food, running around naked. • If you violate mores, you won’t be punished formally, but you might be shunned, ostracized( isolated), or reprimanded. • These punishments reduce the likelihood that you will violate the more again.

  12. Mores … Laws • Laws are rules that are enforced and sanctioned by the authority of the government. • Important Mores become laws. If a law does not support a more, it becomes a dead-letter law. • Not all laws are supported by public mores, instead, they are trying to create norms. • Ex: Seatbelt law, teenage curfew.

  13. Group Work • In groups of 3, name 3 of the following, describe how it relates in the United States • Values • Folkways • Mores • Laws Be ready to discuss in class!

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