Language, Culture, and Society

• Culture refers to a system of vocal symbols used for human communication and an arbitrary language.
• Culture is a shared set of perspectives, values, beliefs, customs and practices which is particular community/civilization.
• Culture is also shaped by the experiences of individuals.
• Society refers to a group of people who live in distinctive ways from other group in an aggregated & structured manner.
• Dialect refers to the investigation of the interaction between language and society.
• Sociolinguistics is the act of transitioning between 2 or more languages/dialects.
• Code-switching is the act of acquiring first or second language.
• Language Acquisition is the capacity to speak and comprehend 2 languages.
• Bilingualism is the scientific inquiry of human cultures and societies.
• Anthropology is the cultural practices which are evaluated within the context of the culture in which they occur, rather than applying the standards of one’s own culture.
• Cultural Relativism is the act of taking or utilizing aspects of one culture by individuals from another culture without proper recognition or respect.
• Cultural Appropriation is the objects created by a particular culture that possesses symbolic significance.
• Artifacts are the fundamental principles and morals for political or social systems.
• Ideology refers to the system of levels of authority or status among people in a society.
• Social Stratification is the capacity to move between different levels of social hierarchy in a society.
• Social Mobility is the sense of connectedness with others in a society.
• Social Cohesion is the pioneer in linguistic anthropology, known for work on language-culture relationship, argued language shapes perception of the world, and that different languages create different world views.
• Edward Sapir is a student of Sapir, known for Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and he suggested that language structure affects the speaker’s perception of the world.
• Benjamin Lee Whorf is an anthropologist, has significant contributions to symbolic anthropology, argued that culture is a system of symbols used to interpret and understand the world, and emphasized studying meanings attached to actions and behaviors.
• Clifford Geertz is a French sociologist who developed the theory of cultural capital, and argued that cultural capital is unequally distributed in society and can reproduce social inequality.
• Pierre Bourdieu is a sociologist who coined the term impression management, described strategies people use to create a particular impression to others, and emphasized importance of nonverbal communication and structured social interactions.
• Erving Goffman is an anthropologist, has significant contributions to symbolic anthropology, argued that culture is a system of symbols used to interpret and understand the world, and emphasized studying meanings attached to actions and behaviors.
• It refers to a system of vocal symbols used for human communication & an arbitrary. Language