Unit 1 Review

1. Unit 1 Review

2. Definitions • Sociology • Symbols • Beliefs • Values • Norms • Folkways • mores • Laws • Language • Culture • Society • Narcissism • Internalization • Ideology

3. Definitions • Social Movement • Social Control • Technology • Invention • Diffusion • Cultural Lag

4. Components of culture • Technology • Symbols • Language • Values • Norms

5. Sub vs. counter • Subculture – has some values and norms that are not accepted by the mainstream group • Counterculture – seeks to replace existing norms and rules with a new set of rules and values

6. Cultural Universals • Why? – all people need to fulfill certain basic needs, and all societies fulfill them, they just differ in the way they meet them.

7. Cultural Variation

8. Traits, Complexes, Patterns • Trait is an individual act tool or belief. • Complex is a set of interrelated traits • A pattern is a set of interrelated Complexes

9. Types of Norms • Mores • Folkways • Laws – formalized mores

10. Studying Culture • Break it down into levels

11. Material Culture vs. nonmaterial culture • Material culture you can actually touch, taste, see, smell etc. • Nonmaterial culture consists of ideas such as religion, beliefs or music

12. Most significant New American Value • Self Fulfillment

13. American Values • Personal Achievement • Individualism • Work • Morality and Humanitarianism • Efficiency and Practicality • Progress and Material Comfort • Equality and Democracy • Freedom

14. Sanctions • Positive – Rewards a behavior • Formal – given by a formal organization such as school • Negative – Punishes a behavior that does not conform. • Informal - Spontaneous expression from an informal group

15. Social Control • Authority figures • Police • Courts • Religion • Family • Public opinion

16. Sources of Social Change • Values and Beliefs • Technology • Population • Diffusion • Physical Environment • Wars and Conquests

17. Resisting Social Change • Ethnocentrism • Cultural Lag • Vested Intrests