SOCIOLOGY 120
UNIT OUTLINE: CULTURE
A. Culture and Society in a Changing World
B. Culture and Society
a. The importance of Culture
b. Material and Non-Material Culture
c. Cultural Universals
C. Components of Culture
a. Symbols
b. Language
i. Language and Social Reality (Sapir-Whorf Theory)
ii. Language and Gender
iii. Language, Race, and Ethnicity
iv. Language Diversity in Canada
c. Values
i. Ideal vs. Real Culture
d. Norms
i. Formal and Informal Norms
ii. Folkways
iii. Mores
iv. Laws
D. Technology and Cultural Change, and Diversity
a. Cultural Change
b. Cultural Diversity
i. Subcultures vs. Countercultures
c. Culture Shock
d. Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
TERMS TO KNOW:
Culture
Material Culture
Non-Material Culture
Cultural Universals
Symbol
Language
Sapir-Whorf Theory
Values
Ideal Culture
Real Culture
Sanctions
Folkways
Mores
Taboos
Laws
Cultural Lag
Subculture
Counterculture
Culture Shock
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Discovery
Invention
Diffusion
September/October 2011
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
26
27
28
29
30
Intro: Culture
Worksheet:
What is
Culture?
Article
Critique #2
Notes:
Cultural
Universals
In Class
Assignment:
Material vs.
Non-Material
Culture
3
Notes:
Technology,
Culture Change
and Diversity
Subcultures vs.
Countercultures:
Reading
Comparisons
Notes:
Components
of Culture
4
5
Group Work:
Finish Group
Work
High School
Subcultures
Group Work:
Identifying
Cultural
Universals
6
Quiz- Culture
Assignments
Due
Review Quiz
Remember
the Titans
Assignment
Components
of Culture
7
Remember
the Titans
Assignment