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Warm-Up Read the text on pages 35-36 and answer the

following:

1. Why was the girl in the text so

uncomfortable?

2. Should we try to conform to the culture of

the places we visit? Why or why not?

3. Have you ever been in a similar situation? If

so, explain.

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Objectives Define culture.

Discuss and differentiate between material culture and

nonmaterial culture.

Agenda 1. Warm-Up

2. Chapter 2 Notes (pgs. 36-39)

3. Worksheet – Everyone Has a Culture

4. Cultural Norms Around the World

5. Article – Understanding American Worldview

6. Closing Questions

Culture

DEFINES HOW PEOPLE

BEHAVE IN A SOCIETY

IN RELATION TO

OTHERS AND TO

PHYSICAL OBJECTS.

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CULTURE What is culture?

Language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors and non

material objects that are passed on from one generation

to the next.

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Material Culture

The material objects that distinguish a group of people.

Examples include: art, buildings, weapons, utensils, clothing,

hairstyle and jewelry

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Non-material (Symbolic Culture

A group’s way of thinking and doing. Examples include a societies

beliefs, values, common patterns and behaviors including language

and other forms of interaction.

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Cultural Awareness Culture is engrained into us from birth

Culture within us – learned and shared ways of

behaving and doing.

Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and

evaluate what is going on around us.

Culture Shock

The disorientation that people experience when they

come in contact with a fundamentally different culture

and can no longer depend on their taken for granted

assumptions about life.

Ethnocentrism

The use of one’s own culture as a yard stick for judging

the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading

to a negative evaluation of their values, norms and

behaviors.

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Closing Questions

1. Describe your personal culture.

2. Do you define your culture in a material or

nonmaterial way? Why?

3. What culture in the world do you think is the

most like the United States? The least?

Explain your choices.

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Warm-Up

1. What is the difference between material and

nonmaterial culture?

2. Do you think Americans are ethnocentric?

Why or why not?

3. Describe a situation in which you have used

nonverbal communication to communicate to

someone else.


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Objectives Cite key symbols that make up nonmaterial culture.

Differentiate between gestures and language.

Explain why language is the basis of culture.

Describe the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Agenda 1. Warm-Up


3. Worksheet – Are you Text Savvy?

4. Worksheet – Identify the Signs

5. Article – The Sound of Silence


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Nonmaterial culture is symbolic culture

Symbol

Something to which people attach meaning that they

then use to communicate with one another.

Symbols include:

Gestures, language, value, norms, sanctions, folkways

and mores.

Gestures

Using one’s body to communicate with one another.

Components of Symbolic

Culture

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Primary way people communicate

A system of symbols that can be combined in

an infinite number of ways and represent not

only objects, but also abstract thought

Language allows culture to exist!

Allows the human experience to be cumulative

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Allows culture to develop by freeing people to move

beyond their immediate experiences.

Provides a social or shared past and future

Language allows shared perspectives

Talking about events allows us to arrive at

shared understandings that form the basis of

social life.

Allows complex, shared, goal directed behavior.

Language

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Studied Hopi Indians in Southwest U.S.

Noticed the Indians had no words for past, present,

future.

Sapir-Whorf concluded that “Language has

embedded within it ways of looking at the world, it not

only expresses our thoughts, but also helps determine

what we perceive.”

Discovered major truth that language both reflects

and shapes cultural experiences.

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

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Closing Questions

1. Why is body language so important to the way

we communicate?

2. Imagine if you could no longer speak. How

would you cope with the loss of your verbal

language? Benefits? Costs?

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Warm-Up

1. Describe the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Do

you agree or disagree with this hypothesis?

2. The common phrase “Actions speak louder

than words” can be applied to our study of

nonverbal communication. Do you think this

phrase is a true statement? Why or why

not?


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Objectives Define “values,” “norms,” “sanctions,” “folkways,”

“mores,” and “taboos”; provide examples of each and

discuss their sociological significance.

Agenda 1. Warm-Up

2. Discuss Article – The Sound of Silence


4. Values Worksheet

5. Norms & Sanctions Worksheet


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Values – standard that people define what is

desirable and undesirable, good or bad

beautiful or ugly.

Values, Norms & Sanctions

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Values, Norms & Santions

NORMS Rules and expectations by which society guides

the behavior of its members.

Positive Sanction – Expression of approval for

following a norm (applause, hand shake, high

five, prize, money etc.)

Negative Sanction – Reflects disapproval for

breaking a norm (harsh words, frowns, stares,

sometimes fined)

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Simple Example of Positive and Negative Norms

Wearing a bathing suit at pool or beach -

Positive

Wearing a bathing suit to church – Negative

(Not against the law though)


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Norms are divided into folkways and mores

Folkways – Norms that have little moral significance

Routine way of doing things

Violations elicit mild social reaction

Consist of preference rather than demand.

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Norms that have great social significance

Identified with group welfare and group survival.

Consists of demands rather than preferences.

Most mores are laws. (rape, murder, theft)

Some mores are called taboos.

Something so grotesque or met with revulsion (cannibalism,

incest)

Mores

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Folkways v. Mores

1. Man walks down street with no shirt –

folkway.

2. Man walks down street with no pants – More

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CORE VALUES IN

AMERICA

What most Americans

define as the basic values.

Core values do not change

without meeting strong

resistance (same sex

marriage, legalization of

marijuana, role of women

in society, racism etc.)

TRADITIONAL

CORE VALUES

EMERGING

VALUES

Achievement and

success

Leisure

Individualism Self-fulfillment

Activity and work Physical fitness

Efficiency and

practicality

Youthfulness

Science and

technology

Concern for

humanity

Progress

Material comfort

Humanitarianism

Freedom

Democracy

Equality

Racism and group

superiority

Education

Religiosity

Romantic Love

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Closing Questions

1. What are some of your family’s values?

Which are most important to you?

2. Give an example of a folkway and a more.

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Warm-Up

1. How often do you think you use nonverbal

communication and what kinds of things do

you communicate nonverbally?

2. Do you agree with the statistic that 55% of

everything we say is nonverbal? Why or

why not?


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Objectives Differentiate between gestures and language.

Participate in games that test your ability to communicate in

nonverbal ways.

Agenda 1. Warm-Up

2. Chapter 2 Vocab Quiz

3. Game Day Play – TABOO, Gestures & Pictionary


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Closing Questions

1. Which game was the hardest for you to

participate in? Why?

2. Which game was the easiest? Why?

3. How do these games lend themselves to our

study of body language and sociology?

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Warm-Up

1. What groups are you a part of in your

everyday life? (i.e. family, sports, classes,

etc)

2. What are some ways in which these groups

impact your life?


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Objectives Compare and contrast dominant culture, subculture, and

counterculture, providing examples of each.

Agenda 1. Warm-Up


3. Counter Culture Jigsaw Activity


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The majority of people in a society that

share the same basic core values.

Dominant Culture

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A world within the larger world of the dominant

culture.

There are thousands of subcultures in America.

Subcultures

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A group whose related behaviors,

values and beliefs place its members in

opposition to the broader culture

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PIERCING Counter

Cultures

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Conflicting values

Those that seem to conflict with one another – (ex.

Democracy and equality with racism and

feminism).

Value conflictions can undergo modifications as

society develops and challenges the existing norm.

Value Clusters

Related core values that fit together to form a

larger whole (ex. hard work, education, efficiency,

material comfort and individualism bound

together.)

Conflicting Values & Value

Clusters

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Closing Questions

1. How is a subculture different from a

counterculture?

2. Make a list of three subcultures that you are a

part of and why you consider yourself a

member of those subcultures.

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Warm-Up

1. Have you ever seen the movie Shrek? If so,

what cultures can you identify?

2. If you haven’t seen the movie before, think of

another animated movie and list some of the

cultures of that movie.


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Agenda 1. Warm-Up

2. Shrek Clips & Worksheet

3. Overview & Begin NAZA Simulation

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Warm-Up

TEN MINUTES TO MEET WITH YOUR

SIMULATION GROUP!


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Agenda 1. Warm-Up

2. NAZA Simulation

3. Chapter 2 Review Worksheet

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