Culture describes a way of life, it is a sharing of norms, meanings, and values.
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What is material culture?
The physical objects that have significance in cultures (e.g. cars, band T-shirts).
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What is non-material culture?
The ideas that people share about how to behave, traditions, languages, and history. It gives guidance for how to behave.
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What is a collectivist culture?
A culture that emphasises the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and desires of each individual (e.g. nationalisation of healthcare).
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What is an individualist culture?
A culture that emphasises the need of the individual over the needs of the group overall (North America and the UK are good examples).
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What is a subculture?
A group within a culture who adopts their own unique norms and values (ethnic groups, genders, classes, regional).
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What are meanings within a culture?
Stuart Hall 1997 - Language is how we communicate emotions and thoughts to each other. Culture includes shared meanings, and so over time, each culture builds up shared meanings that help them understand the world (Union Jack could mean country for one an
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What are norms?
Norms are social expectations about how you should or shouldn't behave, they govern all aspect of human behaviour and relate to specific social situations. They also vary in their seriousness (theft vs poor hygiene).
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What are values?
Values are widely accepted beliefs - ideas that are seen as right or wrong.
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What is ethnocentrism?
The tendency for each society to place its own cultural patterns at the centre of things. Even between neighbours, we tend to believe that our norms, values and beliefs are the "correct" ones.
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What is cultural diversity?
Differences in culture (usually from country to country).
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What is socialisation?
The process of learning how to behave according to the expected norms of your culture.
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What is primary socialisation?
Being taught norms and values from parents and families. Takes place in the home and is the first, arguably most important socialisation we receive.
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What is secondary socialisation?
This takes place outside the home and influences our behaviour, reaffirming norms and values in specific situations (education, media, peers and religion).
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What is tertiary socialisation?
This refers to adult socialisation and takes place when people need to adapt to new events in life (parenthood, changing jobs, retirement, long-term illness).
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What is gender?
The behaviour which people are taught is correct for each sex.
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What is a deviant?
A person who breaks moral, social, or legal rules.
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What is nature theory?
The idea that we are born into a way of behaving.
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What is nurture theory?
The idea that we learn how to behave through socialisation.
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What are agents of socialisation?
The places or social institution where we learn how to behave.
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What does family teach?
Rules of society, manners, how to dress, how to eat, values, meanings, speaking, walking
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What is material culture?
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The physical objects that have significance in cultures (e.g. cars, band T-shirts).
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