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| the way of life of a people --- shared ways of doing things and adapting to our environment |
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a group of people who share, pass on, and create culture.
-cultures do not have clear boundaries |
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-things all cultures have in common
-members of a culture need to satisfy their hunger |
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| -specific practices that set cultures apart from one another |
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| -tendency to view the home culture as a standard by which to judge the value or worth of another culture's ways. |
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| -the idea that foreign ways should not be judged using the home culture as 'standard' and that each culture's practices should be viewed in context of that culture. |
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| -mental and physical strain experienced when on adjusts to the ways of a new culture. |
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| -idea, object, or way of being is adopted into a society from a foreign source |
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| -situation in which the adaptive culture fails to adjust in necessary ways to a material innovation and its disruptive consequences |
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| -situation in which humans interaction and social problems transcend national borders |
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-producing a homogeneous world
-ever increasing glow of goods, services, money, people, and technology across nation borders
-intensify cultural differences by actually sparking conflicts as people fight to preserve their identiy and way of life. resist outside influences that clash with cultural ideals. protect and enforce boundaries even as they are opened. |
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-lifelong learning process by which we become members of our society
-acquire sense of self
-develop human capacities
-learn culture
-learn cultural expectations
(look at notes for more details) |
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| a process through which we make our society's, norms values and beliefs our own |
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-preparotry (2 years) mimicking
-play stage (2-6) taking on role of significant other
-game stage (7 and older) taking on role of generalized other
-gestures convey meaning |
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| Cooley's Looking glass self |
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-people mirror each other
-sense of self comes from perception of how others see us |
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-4 stages
-children cannot progess from one stage to the next until they master the challenges of eariler stages |
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| Life course and transitions |
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-socialization is a lifelong process
-progression through life stages involves socialization through the life course
-major events and turning points in our lives can result in socialization |
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-erikson's 8 stage model illustrates socilization challenges associated with aging
-basic true vs. mistrust and ending with old age0integrity vs. despair and disgust
-doesnt work for all cultures. |
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| -process of breaking away from outdated or inappropriate behaviors or ways of thinking and replacing them with new behaviors or perspectives |
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| Functionalist perspective |
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Social networking sites contribute to the overall order and stability of a society.
Manifest and Latent: functions and dysfunctions. |
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| -seeks to identify advantaged and disadvantaged groups and describe the ways in which advantaged groups promote and protect their interests. |
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| Symbolic interaction perspective |
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| -focuses on self-awareness, symbols, and negotiated order. |
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