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Culture: the material and nonmaterial attributes that the members of an organization or a society have created and use to carry out the tasks necessary to collective life.

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Ethnocentrism: tendency to evaluate other cultures in terms of our own norms, values, beliefs, etc., usually with the presumption that our culture is superior

Cultural Relativity: notion that other people’s behavior should be interpreted in terms of their own culture.

“In Denmark, parents leave childrenunattended while they shop or dine. In New York, people chain up outdoor garbage cans and flower pots if they want to keep them” (AP May 14, 1997)

Danes respond, “They must be crazy over there…We do this all the time.”

Danish headline, “Dane in grotesque nightmare in New York: Police stole my baby”

Major social/political concerns (1988-1990):• Tiananmen Square• Fall of Berlin Wall• Gulf War• Freeing of Nelson Mandela• Major Technology Changes• Increased Awareness of AIDS

Folkways Mores Taboos

Sanctions• Formal/Informal• Positive/Negative

Subculture: unit of a larger culture that shares many characteristics of the larger culture but differs in some important ways.

Counterculture: unit within the larger culture which has norms and values which are in conflict with the dominant culture.

1. Goths2. Gamers3. Skaters4. Trekkers/SciFi Ethusiasts5. Millennials

Include description of norms, values, language, rituals, etc.