3.2: Culture

• 3.2.1: Culture and Society

  • 3.2.1A: Culture and Biology
  • 3.2.1B: Culture and Society
  • 3.2.1C: Cultural Universals
  • 3.2.1D: Culture Shock
  • 3.2.1E: Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
  • 3.2.1F: Material Culture
  • 3.2.1G: Nonmaterial Culture

• 3.2.2: The Symbolic Nature of Culture

  • 3.2.2A: The Symbolic Nature of Culture
  • 3.2.2B: The Origins of Language
  • 3.2.2C: Language
  • 3.2.2D: Language and Perception
  • 3.2.2E: Symbols and Nature
  • 3.2.2F: Gestures
  • 3.2.2G: Values
  • 3.2.2H: Norms
  • 3.2.2I: Sanctions
  • 3.2.2J: Folkways and Mores

• 3.2.3: Culture and Adaptation

  • 3.2.3A: The Origins of Culture
  • 3.2.3B: Mechanisms of Cultural Change
  • 3.2.3C: Cultural Lag
  • 3.2.3D: Animals and Culture

• 3.2.4: Culture Worlds

  • 3.2.4A: Subcultures
  • 3.2.4B: Countercultures

• 3.2.5: Culture and the Dominant Ideology in the U.S.

  • 3.2.5A: An Overview of U.S. Values
  • 3.2.5B: Value Clusters
  • 3.2.5C: Value Contradictions
  • 3.2.5D: Emerging Values
  • 3.2.5E: Culture Wars
  • 3.2.5F: Values as Binders
  • 3.2.5G: Ideal vs. Real Culture