Is Language Uniquely Human?
• Does Language Shape Reality? • Values and Beliefs • Key Values of U.S. Culture • Values: Inconsistency and Conflict • Values in Action: The Games People Play • Norms • Mores and Folkways • Social Control • “Ideal” and “Real” Culture • Material Culture and Technology • New Information Technology and Culture • Cultural Diversity: Many Ways of Life In One World • High Culture and Popular Culture • Subculture • Multiculturalism • Counterculture • Cultural Change • Cultural Lag • Causes of Cultural Change • Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativity • A Global Culture? • Theoretical Analysis of Culture • Structural-Functional Analysis • Social-Conflict Analysis • Sociobiology • Culture and Human Freedom • Culture As Constraint • Culture As Freedom • Summary • Key Concepts • Critical-Thinking Questions • Applications and Exercises • Sites to See PART II: LEARNING OBJECTIVES • To begin to understand the sociological meaning of the concept of culture • To consider the relationship between human i
