 Evaluate group members from Survey Project  Write out answers to the questions first  “Eat, Move, Learn” video intro to the unit  “An Evening with” (due )  Start Culture PPT (slides 1-3)  Test Breakdown  HW:  “Feel you have no real culture? Join the club”  pgs (intro to culture, material/nonmaterial)

 What are some things that I have in common with my classmates? What are some differences?  What are some of your favorite foods to eat?  What are some foods you have always wanted to try?  What would you absolutely not eat?  If you could move anywhere in the world where would you move to? Why?  What is your favorite place to visit?  What is one place that you would not move to?  If you could learn to do anything, and knew that you could not fail, what would you learn? Why?  What is stopping you?  What is something in your community that you would like to know more about?  EAT - STA Travel Australia - YouTube EAT - STA Travel Australia - YouTube  MOVE - STA Travel Australia - YouTube MOVE - STA Travel Australia - YouTube  LEARN - STA Travel Australia - YouTube LEARN - STA Travel Australia - YouTube

 Test breakdown  Your culture half sheet discussion in pods  HW: pgs (values, beliefs, norms)

 “Feel you have no real culture? Join the club” discussion PPT  As you walk in download the Socrative app, or go to m.socrative.com  Room number  Start Culture PPT (slides 8-9)  Culture, material, nonmaterial, apply to Metea Valley (field trip?)  Cross Cultural index (Slide 10)

 Socrative Teacher Socrative Teacher  Download  My room number is  What do you like to do when you are bored?  Do you feel like you have a culture? Why or why not? (Submit)  What are some examples of culture?  Material? (submit)  Nonmaterial? (submit)  What does he mean by Anywhere U.S.A.? Have you grown up in Anywhere U.S.A.? (Submit) Why or why not?  Has anyone in your group lived in another city or gone to another school? Did you have to assimilate?

 What does the author mean by saying that teens are cultural magpies? Do you think this is true of you and your friends?  How is culture a “personal invention”? Or is it passed down from families and communities? How do you see this in your school?  What is the main idea of the article? (Submit)  Do you agree or disagree with the author?  How is globalization impacting your culture? (submit)  How can culture be a matter of life and death?

 Start Culture PPT (slides 9-10)  Culture, material, nonmaterial  Apply to Metea Valley (field trip?)  Cross Cultural index (Slide 11)  Norms (slide 12-15)

 Definition: Shared beliefs, values, behaviors, and material objects that define a people’s way of life.  Necessary for survival of human kind.

Material Culture  Art  Clothing  Houses  Foods  Dance Nonmaterial Culture  Values  Beliefs  Norms  Practices

 age-grading  bodily adornment  calendar  cleanliness  community organization  cooking  courtship  dancing  decorative art  divination  division of labor  education  ethics  etiquette  faith healing  family  feasting  fire-making  folklore  food taboos  funeral rites  games  gestures  gift-giving  government  greetings  hair-style  hospitality  housing  hygiene  incest taboos  inheritance rules  joking  kinship  language  law  luck  magic  marriage  mealtimes  medicine  mourning  music  mythology  numerals  penal sanctions  personal names  property rites  puberty customs  religious rituals  residence rules  sexual restrictions  soul concepts  surgery  tool-making  trade  visiting  weaning  weather control In recent decades there has been a great deal of interest in the study of cultural similarities. At Yale University anthropologist George Murdock and his staff studies hundreds of cultures, past and present and indexed them under topics. Here are some of the things that Murdock discovered in all cultures.

 On a half sheet:  Come up with a list of what society says normal behavior should look like (think about different settings and situations; home, school, with friends, when eating, etc.)  Check out the article “11 Keys to happiness from other cultures”

 What are norms?  Give me an example of a norm.

 Entrance Slip- 4 boxes review of terms-culture, material, nonmaterial, norms.  Discuss Norms (Slide 15-19)  Show commercial examples of Norms from YouTube (type in Sociology culture) also Sudanese immigrants  “Chinese teacher is suspected in months of schoolgirl rapes”  Start “Alive”  HW:  pgs (symbols & language)  “Y’all listen up” (packet)

Definition of CultureSpecific example of material culture (not a category) Specific example of non-material culture (not a category) Specific example of a norm

 Norms: Rules and expectations that guide society’s behavior, (not always actual behavior) Necessary for culture to survive. Some apply to everyone but others are only for a select few.  Mores: Serious rules with great significance  Folkways: less serious  Proscriptive: rules that tell you what not to do  Prescriptive: rules that tell you what to do

 On your half sheet create a t-chart and answer the following:  What are some norms for the Sudanese boys?  What are some norms that the boys experience in the U.S.?  Sociology - Cultural differences – YouTube Sociology - Cultural differences – YouTube  Cultural Differences National Geographic – YouTube Cultural Differences National Geographic – YouTube

 Where are you with your project?  Review norms  Do preview questions  “Alive” Video with W.S. and technology use as a back channel

 Discuss “Alive” & collect W.S.  Try Todays meet back channel  Discuss article- “Chinese teacher is suspected in months of schoolgirl rapes” (norms, mores)  HW:  Y’all listen up  pgs (technology, diversity, high/popular/subculture/multicultural/countercultural, cultural lag, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, global culture) by Thursday

 What Norms are in your life?  Majority Rules, root for the home team, keep promises, pay your taxes, rise for the Star Spangled Banner, obey traffic signs, get good grades....

 Culture shock: personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life

 Today’s meet back channel discussion during the video  Post questions, comments, observations and other students will respond  TodaysMeet TodaysMeet

 Collect Alive worksheet  Notes on symbols, language, values, artifacts and technology  “Y’all listen up” (packet), “Twitter article?”  “In Japan’s ‘nerd culture,’ dream girls are real dolls”

 Symbols: anything that carries meanings recognized by people of a culture.  Graffiti  Flashing red light  Raised fist  Winking your eye  Confederate flag

 Language: system of symbols to communicate  Alphabets  Left to right  Essential for cultural transmission  Shapes your reality

 1,999 different languages in the world  studying language helps us learn about culture and studying culture helps us learn about language  language is one way that a culture is unified  Swamp People — Hide Pride — History.com Videos Swamp People — Hide Pride — History.com Videos  orld_s_english_mania.html orld_s_english_mania.html

 Do you have a saying or some slang that you use in this area, but wouldn’t use outside of this area?  How would you describe our local language to someone who isn’t from this area?

 What is a twang?  What is the issue with Y’all? What is the issue with people coming up with new words for common things?  Are there other English dialects? Do you use the same words as someone from another part of the country?

 Gestures- Anger, greetings (waving, flipping off someone)  Body Language- what messages are given plus received

 Finish the culture vocabulary components  Practice with “In Japan’s ‘nerd culture,’ dream girls are real dolls”  Create Defining American Culture Group Posters  Present American Culture

 Artifacts: physical objects of human creation  Chopsticks vs. fork and knife  Bikes vs. cars

 Technology: knowledge that is applied to the task of living.  What are some examples of technology that we use in order to carry out the task of living?

 Values: Broad standards for living, shared beliefs about what is right/wrong/good/bad. What is important or should be.  Values GUIDE our behavior.

 What values guide society in the US?  Equal Opportunity, freedom, democracy, hard work, responsibility vs. being a victim?, healthcare?...

 Let’s practice looking for these different parts of culture…  “In Japan’s ‘nerd culture,’ dream girls are real dolls” (packet)

 Present American Culture pictures  Culture PPT  “Our phone? Past the barn, near the hedge”  Amish Video with W.S.  HW: pgs (race, ethnicity, prejudice, stereotype, racism, scapegoat, discrimination, pluralism, assimilation, segregation, genocide) by Wednesday

The Ten Commandments of American Culture  Working with a group, create a poster to represent 1 of the following commandments and all of the components of American Culture:  Components: ▪ Values ▪ Language ▪ Norms ▪ Symbols ▪ Artifacts  Include the meaning behind the commandment  2 specific examples of the commandment in the U.S.  A picture to go along with your examples 1. You can’t argue with success. (Be a success.) 2. Live and let live. 3. Time flies when you’re having fun. (Have lots of fun.) 4. Shop till you drop. 5. Just do it. 6. No pain, no gain. (Get tough.) 7. Enough is enough. (Stand up for your rights.) 8. Time is money. (Don’t waste time.) 9. Rules are made to be broken. (Think for yourself.) 10. God helps those who help themselves. (Work hard.)

Folk Culture  Small  Homogenous  Cohesive  Little change over time  Distinguished from other cultures  Resists spreading  Vary over locations, not time Popular Culture  Large / wide-spread  Heterogeneous  Rapid spread  Connected to movement of people, ideas, communication  What is the latest trend?  Vary over time, not location

 Multicultural vs. monocultural What is an example of a country that is multicultural? Monocultural?  High culture- elites’ way of life What does high society do that makes them different from the rest of society?

 Subculture: Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of society’s population. (still part of larger culture... teens, nerds, senior citizens)  almost everybody participates in many subcultures

 Counter Cultures: Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely held by society. Attempts to change other people’s culture. (hippies, terrorists)

 Project?  New seats  “Our phone? Past the barn, near the hedge”  Amish Video with W.S.  HW: pgs (race, ethnicity, prejudice, stereotype, racism, scapegoat, discrimination, pluralism, assimilation, segregation, genocide) by Wednesday

 Studying How The Blind Perceive Race : Code Switch : NPR Studying How The Blind Perceive Race : Code Switch : NPR  ”Our phone?” article  Review vocab  Skinheads’ video with W.S.  Counterculture discussion

 Studying How The Blind Perceive Race : Code Switch : NPR Studying How The Blind Perceive Race : Code Switch : NPR  ”Our phone?” article  Skinheads’ video with W.S.  Fill out the “Who I am” worksheet (packet)

 Collect cultural exchange  Finish skinheads  Who am I? W.S.  Gallery walk  Define race, ethnicity and nation

 The murder of an American Nazi - 60 Minutes - CBS News The murder of an American Nazi - 60 Minutes - CBS News

 In your group:  The shortest person is the leader of the group  The oldest person is the speaker of the group  The youngest is the wild card  #4 is the speaker

 Race, Ethnicity defined  Group article activity

 Define Race  Define Ethnicity  Define Nationality  What are the different skin colors in your group?  What are the different eye colors in your group?  What other languages are spoken in your group?  Where are your ancestors from?  Is your race, ethnicity, or culture important to you?  Are other people’s race ethnicity, or culture important to you?  How do people in the United States feel about race, ethnicity, or culture?  Let’s take a look at some personal accounts. What do they have in common?

 Race  A socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important; ex. Skin color, facial features, hair textures, and body shape  How others perceive you….  Based on biology not culture ▪ Caucasoid- light skin & fine hair ▪ Negroid- darker skin & coarse hair ▪ Mongoloid- yellow or brown skin & distinctive folds on the eyelids

 Ethnicity  Shared cultural heritage; common ancestors, language, or religion  Based on culture not biology  You could identify with several ethnic groups

 Nation  A political entity, that is, a territory with specific borders, such as the United States, Canada, Argentina, or Zimbabwe.

 Your group will be given an article to read and analyze  Look for examples of the terms from this unit  Be able to: 1. Give a summary of the major issues discussed in your article: (Explain author’s purpose) 1.Provide evidence, or the supporting details 2. Provide a picture, perform a skit, dance, or song relating to the article 3. Come up with several discussion questions to ask your classmates relating to your article (stay away from y/n)

 The Black and white of ho culture  “I was in the 9 th grade,” MJ  Letter from Bombay  Affirmative Action  A new diversity at Michigan  Is your skin color an advantage?  Vocabulary  Stereotyping  Prejudice  Discrimination  Bigotry  Scapegoating  Racism

 Finish article presentations and vocabulary  Ethnocentrism  Religion as a part of culture  Pre-quiz and current trends  Atheism article

 Stereotyping  Prejudice  Discrimination  Bigotry  Scapegoating  Racism

 Definition: The tendency to judge other cultures by how closely they resemble one’s own cultural standards.

 Ethnocentrism assumes:  your culture is the standard by which other cultures are to be judged.

 Ethnocentrism encourages:  Pride  Loyalty  Uniformity  Nationalism

 Ethnocentrism encourages:  Stereotypes  Prejudice  Discrimination  Superiority/Inferiority Complex  Imperialism

 Cultural Relativism- evaluating a culture by ITS OWN STANDARDS  Alternative to ethnocentrism  Difficult to adopt- must understand complex nature of culture and suspend standards you’ve known all of your life.

DANGER!! Does this mean that anything is alright? Are there any universal standards of conduct?

 Current Trends pre quiz  Article analysis  Religion Basics

Trends, basics, and functions

1. Name the 4 largest religions in the world. 2. Name the religion that is associated with the symbol 3. What is the largest religion in the U.S.? 4. True/False- There has been a decline in fundamentalism in the U.S.. 5. True/False- Americans have become less religious in the last 10 years.

6. Associate the following with a religion:  Salt Lake City  Vatican  Moses  Nirvana  Ramadan  Kosher  Eightfold Path 7. Name a religious figure that has been in the news in the last year. 8. What is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic? 9. Physically, what is the largest place of worship in Naperville? 10. True/False- There is both a mosque and a synagogue in Naperville

 U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz

 Finish article  Religion Basics  Megachurches  Questions about the test

 What do you think atheists find appealing about this idea? Cite specific examples  Will this become a big movement?

 What is Religion?  Def.- Religion is a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on a conception of the sacred.

 sacred- that which people set apart as extraordinary, inspiring a sense of awe and reverence...embodied in ritual- formal, ceremonial behavior  i.e. ideas and truths that transcend everyday experiences...a matter of faith- belief anchored in conviction rather than scientific evidence  opposite= profane- ordinary elements of everyday life

 Sociologists attempt to study the how and why of religions relative to society  Not make judgments regarding right or wrong

 Why do we have Religion? 1. Gives meaning & purpose to life…answers basic questions re life and death  why we exist  why people suffer and die  what happens when we die  this sacred canopy provides emotional support, comfort and motivation  our lives serve a greater purpose

2. Social Cohesion-  creates a sense of belonging & fellowship- reinforces sense of shared concerns, social bonds…united through shared symbolism, values and norms

3. Social Control-  gives moral codes, order…reinforces cultural values…promotes conformity to norms, mores…i.e. marriage, reproduction, rules, laws, political legitimacy

 How would sociologists view Religion?  Marx-  justifies status quo, promotes social inequalities  Weber-  promotes change- Protestant ethic & capitalism, Gandhi, M.L. King-social change

1. Religion in the U.S.- Traditions &Trends 1. Fewer attending church 2. Fewer praying 3. Largest religion is Christianity 4. Growing group of unaffiliated 1.Atheist 2.Secular 3.Agnostic

2. Tolerance- long tradition…often challenged

3. Denominational pluralism- we have many diverse religions

4. Increase in Secularization- less focus on religion as a key part of life

 Survey Results…a snapshot  When asked, 86% of U.S. adults claim to believe in a divine power…although only 61% claim no doubts that God exists  - 72% believe in a life after death  - 55% of adults say they pray at least once a day  - 29% attend religious services on a weekly basis

 Congregations with weekly attendance  Majority in south  sunbelt (CA, Texas, Florida, Georgia)

 Christian based congregations, mostly Protestant  Often conservative, literal interp. Bible, Trinity, baptism (some-“speaking in tongues”)  Southern Baptist

 Mega Churches started in the 70s  high growth areas  Continue to grow  Customer oriented  changes from urban to suburban,  “shopping around”

 Campuses in 4 counties  15 services a week,  food court,  bookstore,  cappuccino bar,  gas station  programs for young, elderly, singles, divorced, youth etc. Willow Creek- South Barrington, Illinois (largest in state)

Bill Hybels Willow Creek Church

 began as small church on Benton in downtown Naperville in 80s  moved to Aurora Ave then to 59 location- largest church in Naperville  -Similar programs, beliefs as Willow Creek  -Calvary Church of Naperville — SermonsCalvary Church of Naperville — Sermons Calvary Church: Naperville, Illinois

 Purpose Driven Ministry  founded Saddleback Church- Lake Forest, CA  one of America's largest and best known churches  fastest growing Baptist church in history  seminars, internet classes  Best selling books- Purpose-Driven Life, Purpose-Driven Ministry

Robert Schuller Crystal Cathedral, CA

Joel Osteen Lakewood Church - TX Watch Online

Are mega churches packaging God for commercialization? Are mega churches in the self-help business, not in the religion business? Does size equal success? Is the trend reversing?