Culture

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               Components of Culture 

Macro / Micro link
Material and Non-material culture
Cultural universals

Symbols: anything meaningful that represents something else, varies according to culture

Language: Sapir Whorf Hypothesis

Values: Ideal and Real Culture

Norms: 

       a) prescriptive and proscriptive

       b) varies by time period, culture, sub-groups 

       c) varies in degree of presumed seriousness:

Folkways-->Mores-->Laws

Culture and Social Class

       a) high culture and popular culture

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