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1. Good Morning! • Bell Ringer- in your groups, finish your tropical island activity • Objective: To Define the term Culture and its components.

2. Chapter 2 Culture Ms. Krall

3. Activity… • The credo and your items are expressions of your Culture. • Each item and idea are part of your value system because of the culture that you live in. • If you were raised in a different culture, lists would probably be different! • Objectives- to identify and define the components of culture.

4. Activity…Bell Ringer • You are watching TV when the local news interrupts and states that you must evacuate your house immediately, without reason. You can only bring 10 items (other than clothes) with you. What would they be? • Next right your own Credo (statement of beliefs.) Ex. “I believe…” • What is the difference between “culture” and “cultured”?

5. Definitions…Think back to the Tropical Island… • Society- groups of people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity. • Culture- shared products of humans. • MaterialCulture- physical products • NonmaterialCulture- beliefs, values. • Societies produce culture!

6. Components of Culture Symbols Language Values Norms Folkways Mores

7. Symbols • something that stands for anything else (shared meaning attached to it.) • http://www.symbols.com

8. Welcome Back! • Bell Ringer- List the components of culture • Objectives: Continue to define components of culture, understanding how rules define our society.

9. Language • organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.

10. Norms • Enforced cultural values, shared rules of conduct to tell people how to act in specific situations. • Mores-norms that have great social significance to them. • Folkways-norms that do not have great social significance. Non-conformity is permitted.

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25. Welcome Back! • Bell Ringer- What is the difference between a folkway and a mores? Give an example for each.

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27. Activity • Read “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” • List two types of material and non-material culture. • List an example of each component of culture: Symbol, Language, Values, Norms, (Folkways, Mores.) • List an example of a cultural trait, Cultural Complex, and a Cultural Pattern (combo of cultural complexes)

28. Welcome Back! • Bell Ringer- With your partner complete Nacirema questions and be prepared to discuss. • Objectives- By observing behavior and reading Milgram’s experiment you will be able to identify how sanctions and social control shape norms in our society.

29. Social Control and Sanctions • Sanctionsare positive or negative reactions to the ways that people follow or disobey norms, including rewards for conformity and punishments for norm violators. • Sanctions help to establish social control, the formal and informal mechanisms used to increase conformity to values and norms and thus increase social cohesion. • For example…. Following the leader

30. Good Morning! Bell Ringer… What are sanctions? How do sanctions enforce social control?

31. For Example • How are people reacting to these norm violations? • Is violating a norm becoming more acceptable? • No pants day!

32. Today’s objective- Would you electrocute your friend? • As you read the article • What is the “Shirer Thesis?” • Summarize Milgrams’s experiment • Do you think Americans are truly obedient? • The experiment

33. Good Morning • Bell Ringer: • Think about your credo awhile back. List 10 things that you believe in • Agenda and Objective: Through notes and discussion, students will identify values that all Americans share.

34. Values • Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. • The types of values held by a group help to determine the character of its people and the kinds of material and non material culture they create.

35. Good morning… • Bell Ringer: Compare your values rankings with your neighbor. What are top 5? • Do any values contradict each other? • Objective- to understand Common American values and see them through two viewpoints: Traditionalists and Progressives.

36. Can you think of any values that all Americans share? • Sociologist Robin Williams believed we all share common cultural values as Americans.

37. Common values • Achievement- we all strive for success. • Work- we all have a strong work ethic • Morality- we are absolute in what we think is right/wrong • Humanitarianism- We take pride that we are generous to others. • Efficiency- we know how to get the job done and quickly. • Progress- We feel that America is always moving forward to become better. • Material comfort- we love our stuff and we want more of it.

38. Common Values • Equality- We believe that all people should be treated fairly and equally • Freedom- We value our civil liberties • Comfort- we love to conform and follow the group. • Group Superiority and racism- we tend to discriminate against certain groups in society. • Science- we value science to explain things and to solve problems. • Nationalism- we take pride in our country and we like to mix religion with it. • Democracy-We value the choice of who represents us • Individualism- you have control over your life.

39. Cultural ValuesCultural defined standards by which serve as broad guidelines for social living. Cultural Conflicts Disagreements over cultural values

40. Two Major Camps • Traditionalists • Most oppose abortion, gay rights, school has abandoned moral teachings. • World is seen as a moral system, that there is an authority that clearly defines right/wrong and to whom everyone is responsible. • God is the authority • Tend to be patriotic, religious, “old fashion”

41. Second Camp • Progressives • Social problems like poverty and racial discrimination demand not greater moral discipline but making everyone more equal. • World is composed of people free to make their own choices. No clear line between right/wrong • Religious but see religious texts as a source of historical wisdom and up for interpretation.

42. Bell Ringer • With your neighbor review the following items • List of American Values • Define the following: Cultural Conflicts, Traditionalists, Progressives

43. The Media focuses on people taking extreme positions on each of these views

44. What do these say about our values?

45. Activity! • With your neighbor pick three “American Values” and represent their meanings by creating two bumper stickers.

46. Good Morning • Your Bell Ringer…. • Complete review worksheet…

47. Agenda and Objectives • Review Bumper Stickers • Take Culture Quiz • Through participating in a cultural quiz students will be able to understand what is their cultural preference.

48. Good Morning… • Bell Ringer: Take a piece of paper and draw a map of the world • Agenda: Go over assignment, discuss your maps, activity on ethnocentrism • Through notes and activities, students will be able to define ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.

49. Your Map! • Before we discuss your own maps do the following… • View the four different Maps shown. Rank them from most realistic/correct (1) to least realistic/correct (4)