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 Bridgman
Hall – 610 Hilltop Circle
 Chancellors – 820 University Drive
 Sutherland – 620 Hilltop Circle
 Governor’s – 640 Hilltop Circle
 Horan – 651 Hilltop Circle
 KT – 101 Garfield Avenue
 Murray – 11 Garfield Avenue
 Putnam – 99 Garfield Avenue
 Oak Ridge – 810 University Drive
 Towers – 642 University Drive
 Culture: the
material and nonmaterial
attributes that the members of an
organization or a society have
created and use to carry out the tasks
necessary to collective life.
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 Ethnocentrism: tendency
to
evaluate other cultures in terms
of our own norms, values, beliefs,
etc., usually with the presumption
that our culture is superior
 Cultural Relativity: notion that
other people’s behavior should
be interpreted in terms of their
own culture.
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“In Denmark, parents leave children
unattended while they shop or dine.
In New York, people chain up outdoor
garbage cans and flower pots if they
want to keep them” (AP May 14, 1997)
Danes respond, “They must be crazy over there…We
do this all the time.”
Danish headline, “Dane in grotesque nightmare in New
York: Police stole my baby”
 Major
social/political concerns (1988-
1990):
• Tiananmen Square
• Fall of Berlin Wall
• Gulf War
• Freeing of Nelson Mandela
• Major Technology Changes
• Increased Awareness of AIDS
 Folkways
 Mores
 Taboos
 Sanctions
• Formal/Informal
• Positive/Negative
 Subculture: unit
of a larger culture that
shares many characteristics of the larger
culture but differs in some important
ways.
 Counterculture: unit within the larger
culture which has norms and values
which are in conflict with the dominant
culture.
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Goths
Gamers
Skaters
Trekkers/SciFi Ethusiasts
Millennials
Include description of norms, values,
language, rituals, etc.