Transcript Creation and Transmission of Culture

• the way of passing or learning knowledge, skills,
attitudes, and values from person to person
Formal- deliberate & intentional
Informal- through observation and imitation
Primary- intimate/face to face
 family
Secondary schools, churches,
mass media, peers
Expression through language
Expression through gestures/body language
Symbols:
 physical objects, sounds, smells, tastes
 holds meaning or representation
Gestures:
 use of the body to communicate
 misunderstandings can lead to embarrassment or worse
Language:
can represent objects as well as intangible thought
process of social learning
 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis- language creates the way we perceive & think
We, as Sociologists must
and/or
to
discover culture!!