Symbols, Values & Norms: Crash Course Sociology #10
What exactly is culture? This week we're going to try to answer that, and explain the difference between material and non-material culture. We'll look at three things that make up culture:...
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You’re about to cross a street. What do you do? If there are no cars coming, do you stay at the crosswalk, waiting for the light to change? Or do you just go for it? Do you look left first before you cross, or do you look right? Or maybe you just dart across the street, shouting, ‘Hey I’m walking here!’ No matter what you do in this situation, what you do is going to depend on culture. Now you may be thinking, how can something like crossing the street be a cultural phenomenon? Isn’t culture, like, opera and galas and fancy art openings with tiny hor d’oeuvres? Or maybe you think culture is bigger than all that, that culture is your heritage, traditions that have been passed down for generations, like Quinceañeras, Bar Mitzvahs, or Sweet Sixteen ...
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You’re about to cross a street. What do you do? If there are no cars coming, do you stay at the crosswalk, waiting for the light to change? Or do you just go for it? Do you look left first before you cross, or do you look right? Or maybe you just dart across the street, shouting, ‘Hey I’m walking here!’ No matter what you do in this situation, what you do is going to depend on culture. Now you may be thinking, how can something like crossing the street be a cultural phenomenon? Isn’t culture, like, opera and galas and fancy art openings with tiny hor d’oeuvres? Or maybe you think culture is bigger than all that, that culture is your heritage, traditions that have been passed down for generations, like Quinceañeras, Bar Mitzvahs, or Sweet Sixteen ...
