What Makes Culture Flashcards
(25 cards)
Cultural diversity
The idea that what is normal in one culture is diffrent in another
Cultural universal
Social behaviour can be found in all cultures
Morals
Idea about what behaviour are right and wrong
Norms
Expected behaviour in a particular situation or culture/social rules for correct behaviour e.g knife and fork
Role models
Someone who is respected and looked up to by others
Roles
Expected behaviour or part played by someone in a particular situation
Status
Respect to others gives to you in society
Identity
How we see our selves and how others see us
What makes culture
A culture contains
•food
•language
•clothing
•religion
•music
•history
•art
•norms and values
How are norms and values transmitted.
SCHOOL
Durkham saw one of the main structures of education as passing on society’s,norms and values
Formal social control
Disciplines within lessons by staff
Informal social control
Peer group pressure
Family
•Children imitate family members
•children are punished for socially deviant behaviour
•Murdock believes that the family passed on society’s norms and values
Peer group
The peer group might have there own norms and values so it could influence its members
E.g choices of clothes, music and behaviour
The individual conforms to fit in
How Are norms learnt through primary socialisation
The family is the main source of primary socialisation.
-gender norms are learnt in the family through canalisation and manipulation
Values
Values refer to what is considered worthwhile and worth working to achieve in a society
Values 2.
Norms and values are learnt and shared and they influence how we behave
What does Ralph Linton belive
He believes that achieved status is learnt through education and work Is biased on merit.
E.g being a professional athlete or the manager of a large company
Nature theory
-our behaviour is natural
-some of our behaviour is genetic
-twins often share the same characteristics
-scientists suggest we inherit behaviour from our parents e.g the Jim twins
Nurture theory
-behaviour is learnt through agencies of socialisation e.g the family and is a result of our up bringing
-society, down to our social environment
-feral children do not naturally have the basic skills and therefore must be taught them
-some people kill themselves Wich goes against the idea of the idea that we have an innate desire to keep our selves alive
What does cultural diversity support
NUTURE THEORY
Why?-because of the range of different cultures that exists e.g the foods that people eat.
Socialisation
The process of learning the expected rules and norms and values of a culture
What’s primary socialisation
The family is a child first social group so it’s where the early learning takes place.
It’s where we are taught attitudes, skills,knowledge,norms and values by are family
-where children learn to behave
Why is it important
It teaches children how to behave and what is acceptable
Without socialisation there would be chaos in society
Teaches children what is expected of them
Feral children is an example that without primary socialisation we find it hard to fit in .
