Unit+III++Culture

After reading chapter three, you should be able to:
 * Provide the sociological definitions of culture, nonmaterial and material culture, and culture shock.
 * Explain how culture replaces instinct in human beings.
 * Identify the major components of all cultures.
 * Understand the role of language in the transmission of culture.
 * Understand the implications of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis regarding cross-cultural communication.
 * List Robin Williams’s ten central American values.
 * Distinguish between mores and folkways.
 * Distinguish between real and ideal culture.
 * Discuss the role of material culture and technology in our society.
 * Distinguish between high culture and popular culture.
 * Examine the diversity of subcultures and countercultures found in complex modern societies.
 * Summarize the contemporary debate over multiculturalism.
 * Discuss the concepts of cultural integration and cultural lag.
 * Identify and discuss three causes of cultural change.
 * Compare and contrast ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
 * Discuss three factors influencing the emergence of a global culture and three limitations to the global culture thesis.
 * Summarize the three theoretical analyses of culture: structural-functional, social-conflict, and sociobiological.
 * Identify how culture both constrains and enhances human freedom.
 * culture
 * nonmaterial culture
 * material culture
 * culture shock
 * symbols
 * language
 * cultural transmission
 * Sapir-Whorf thesis
 * values
 * beliefs
 * norms
 * mores
 * folkways
 * social control
 * technology
 * high culture
 * popular culture
 * subculture
 * multiculturalism
 * Eurocentrism
 * Afrocentrism
 * counterculture
 * cultural integration
 * cultural lag
 * ethnocentrism
 * cultural relativism
 * cultural universals



Principles of Sociology Culture Application Project
=== Directions: Select one of the multi-media presentation tools available online as a free web 2.0 application. Create a visually stunning piece of media that will educate your peers on the components of culture for your travel destination!! Challenge yourself to educate us as if we were your traveling companions and you want us to understand everything we can about the adventure we are taking with you!! ===

NOTE: Do NOT include more than 7-10 words in an individual text block. The more VISUALLY appealing yours is (images!!) the better!


 * 1) Name of the City/Country you will travel to!
 * 2) Symbols of the country WITH an explanation for each.
 * 3) Language (s) spoken WITH examples of common phrases (3)
 * 4) Values of the culture (consider the 10 core values of the United States...what are core values of your country of choice?)
 * 5) Beliefs (What does the culture base it's belief system on? Give 3 examples.)
 * 6) Norms (Describe examples of 'breaking' a norm in this country and what will be the consequence?)
 * 7) Material Culture (Include images of clothing, food, technology, housing, etc.)

Extra Credit Additions:
 * 1) Describe at least two different ‘sub cultures’ present within the area.
 * 2) How does the culture separate its “elite” from the masses?
 * 3) When people visit your nation, describe some of the most popular tourist attractions.
 * 4) Video: Include a video that is no more than 2-3 minutes that highlights a component of your nation's culture.

[|Background on Film: Hotel Rwanda]

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