1. Culture

3. Story
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CULTURE

4. Culture
A source of freedom because it allows us to make and remake our world.

5. Culture shock
Greek monastery

6. Culture shock

7. Culture shock

8. Culture shock

9. Culture shock

10. Other examples of culture shock
Japanese fancy toilet
France – Versailles
To US. From Japan
Egypt – Plowing
Egypt - Tipping

11. Components of Culture Material culture Nonmaterial culture Computers
Religion, ideas, values, beliefs, customs

12. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
World perceived with cultural lens of language

13. How does culture control us?
Norms
Guidelines for behavior
Prescriptive “should do”
Proscriptive “should not do”
Folkways
Everyday living
Mores
Right vs wrong - morality
Taboos
Sanctions

14. How do cultures change? Invention Discovery Diffusion New products
New words & symbols to communicate
Discovery
Diffusion

15. Culture lag
Different cultural elements change at different rates

16. Cultural Diversity Ideal VS Real culture Subculture Counterculture
Poets, musicians, Amish
Counterculture
Cultural patterns that oppose those that are widely held
Militia groups
New cultures
Immigrants (Asia and Latin America)

17. Interpreting Culture Ethnocentrism Cultural relativism
Judging a culture by your own standards
Cultural relativism
Judging another culture by its own standards

18. Cultural Universals Part of every known culture Heterosexuality
Marriage
Music
Status levels