UCSP Culture

• elements of culture -

  • Norms
  • Ideas
  • Material Culture
  • Symbols
• Different Types of Norms

  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • Taboos
  • Laws
• Folkways- are customs that we follow but are often not written down
• Folkways- we learn them through intuition as we grow up
• Determine the types of normsExample situation: dressing appropriately at work?

  folkways
• Mores- are usually unwritten rules or laws that govern behavior within a particular group or community.
• Mores- also known as moral norms
• Mores- if you break them you would be seen as not just in poor taste, but immoral they're often linked to religious rules
• laws- are norms that are actually defined as being legal or illegal
• laws- the government has decided these norms are so important that you could get in trouble for breaking them
• Ideas- These are non material aspects of culture and embody man's conception of his physical, social and, cultural world
• symbols- It refers to an object, gesture, sound color or design that represents something "other than itself
• Culture relativism- is the principle of understanding other cultures on their own terms, rather than judging according to one's own culture