Sociology › Section C · Culture › Topic C.1
What is culture?
How you greet people, what you eat for breakfast and what you think is polite all feel natural, yet every one of them was learned. Culture is that learned, shared way of life, and seeing it clearly starts with noticing how other people's ways differ from your own.
In this topic
- Why a greeting can go wrong
- Culture and society
- Material and nonmaterial culture
- Worked example: sorting the parts of a graduation
- Cultural universals
- Ethnocentrism
- Cultural relativism
- Xenocentrism and xenophobia
- Culture shock
- Worked example: an exchange student's first month
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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