Language, Culture, and Society

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    • 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
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