CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION

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CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION

• THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE

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BUILDING SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• NATURE
• vs.
• NURTURE

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GREAT QUESTION

• WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?
• SOCIOLOGICAL RESPONSE
• WE LEARN OUR SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
• GROUP INTERACTION
• UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

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SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

• TWO LEVELS
• MACRO
• MICRO

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SHARED SOCIAL VARIABLES

• CULTURE
• MATERIAL
• NON-MATERIAL

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NON-MATERIAL CULTURE

• AN HISTORICALLY DURABLE FRAMEWORK
• RELIGION
• LANGUAGE
• FAMILY STRUCTURE
• MUSIC
• ART

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MATERIAL CULTURE

• THE CONTEMPORARY BACKBONE OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
• POSTMODERN SOCIETY
• CONSUMERISM
• GLOBALIZATION

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DEPENDENCE ON SHARED COMPONENTS OF STRUCTURE

• NORMS THE BEHAVIOR WE MOST COMMONLY EXPECT TO
  ENCOUNTER
• MORÉS
• CUSTOMS
• FOLKWAYS

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COMPLEXITY OF NORMS

• HISTORICALLY RELATIVE ISOLATION
• CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL FUSION
• MASS MEDIA
• ELECTRONIC MEDIAL
• TRAVEL
• EMERGENT CONFLICT

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SOCIAL IMPACT?

• CULTURE SHOCK RESULT OF ENCOUNTER WITH BEHAVIOR
  DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND OR ACCEPT
• CULTURAL RELATIVISM JUDGEMENT BASED
  VALUATION/DEVALUATION OF SOCIAL PRACTICES AND
  BEHAVIORS

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ETHNOCENTRIC PROCESSES

• USING ONES OWN CULTURE AS A STANDARD FOR THE
  JUDGEMENT OF OTHER CULTURES WITH ELEVATION OF
  SELF BEING THE MOST COMMON, BUT NOT UNIVERSAL,
  RESULT.

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IMPACT OF CULTURAL CONFLICT

• FEAR
• SUSPICION
• REJECTION
• CONTEMPT

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