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Socio – W,A – UNIT 2

Examine the difference between material and nonmaterial culture in your world. Identify ten objects that are part of your regular cultural experience. For each, then identify what aspects of nonmaterial culture (values and beliefs) that these objects represent. What has this exercise revealed to you about your culture?

Ten objects as regular culture:

Ten objects that are present in society as a regular culture are; dogs, family, Christianity, cars TV, Clothes, Work, school, sports, and racism.

Cars: The cars are used as transport that takes us from one place to other. A person who owns a car is responsible to change its oil and brake fluid. Insurance and gas are paid when someone owes car.

Television: Men, women, and children watch television for enjoyment and leisure. It is a source of getting news and views of different personalities. It has both positive and negative effects. It can cause a wastage of time for children because their study is very important than watching TV. Media will leave their incomplete discussion on you to rethink on it and makes you able to think about happenings in your own views.

Sports: Sports are very common nowadays. Student practices in high school in different sports and when they go to college, if anyone is good in that particular sport, he may get a scholarship and sign the contract to play on a higher level.

Racism: Racism is defined as to make differences and give priorities. It can be African, American, Spanish, Asian. Most white people get better jobs because they have good scores in SAT and they are well educated, where blacks are discriminated here.

Material culture refers to temples, mosques, offices, factories and plants, tools etc. All these physical aspects of a culture help to define its members' behaviors and perceptions. For example, technology is a vital aspect of material culture in today's United States. American students must learn to use computers to survive in college and business, in contrast to young adults in the Yanomamo society in the Amazon who must learn to build weapons and hunt.

Non‐material culture For instance, the non‐material cultural concept of religion consists of a set of ideas and beliefs about God, worship, morals, and ethics. These beliefs, then, determine how the culture responds to its religious topics, issues, and events.When considering non‐material culture, sociologists refer to several processes that a culture uses to shape its members' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Four of the most important of these are symbols, language, values, and norms.