Culture Soc 105
Culture: is everything, frames what we do every minute of day even the way we sleep at night, it is so common to our lives that it is. The set of ideas handed down from generation to generation in a particular group or society, is both product of peoples actions and constraint on their actions.
Material Culture: physical objects a society produces from objects of nature, such as tools, streets, cars, sculptures and toys. These objects depend on nonmaterial culture for their meaning.
Nonmaterial culture: Intangible elements of a culture, varying from the simple to complex. These elements include symbols, language, values, the norms, the beliefs, and the general knowledge shared by a society.
One Part:
Symbols: symbols are anything that represents something else to more than one person.
Language: A set of symbols communicated through writing, signs and expressions, and speech. Is the core of culture: if you can’t speak the language can’t be a part of the culture, it has words and those words have meaning?
Two Part:
Norms: socially accepted behavior that falls into 3 categories: * Folkways: Customary, normal, habitual ways a group does things. * Mores: Fairly strong ideas of right or wrong that have a more nature. Can be laws. But not all laws are Mores. * Taboos: Violation generally deeply repugnant. This is what disgusts us: aka, murder, rape, anything that makes you sick you can hardly talk about.
SANCTIONS: visible responses to norm violations that can be both positive and negative. * Informal sanctions come from groups or individuals, and range from personal humiliation to isolation. * Formal sanctions are official acts of institutions, such as imprisonment.

VALUES: values are general or abstract ideas about what is good and desirable as opposed to what is bad and undesirable, in a society. * Examples: of values