Culture Story ERUTLUC CULTURE Culture A source of freedom because it allows us to make and remake our world. Culture shock Other examples of culture shock Japanese fancy toilet France Versailles US. From Japan Egypt Plowing Egypt - Tipping Components of Culture Material culture Computers Nonmaterial culture Religion, ideas, values, beliefs, customs Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis World perceived with cultural lens of language How does culture control us? Norms Guidelines for behavior Prescriptive should do Proscriptive should not do Folkways Mores Taboos Sanctions How do cultures change? Invention Discovery Diffusion Culture lag Different cultural elements change at different rates Cultural Diversity Ideal VS Real culture Subculture Poets, musicians, Amish Counterculture Cultural patterns that oppose those that are widely held Militia groups New cultures Immigrants (Asia and Latin America) Interpreting Culture Ethnocentrism Judging a culture by your own standards Cultural relativism Judging another culture by its own standards Cultural Universals Part of every known culture Heterosexuality Marriage Music Status levels