SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS : CULTURE

Culture is the learned set of language, symbols, beliefs, values, and even the tools we share. Culture includes the way we think. Culture provides guidelines for how we act. Culture also gives us a way of interpreting the world around us. identify a culture different from your own in a common every day setting. For this assignment you will choose a restaurant, grocery/merchandise store, or other business representative of a particular culture. identify key aspects of the relevant culture, but you will talk to an employee/owner about that culture. You will identify and provide examples of the following characteristics of culture:  Culture shock  Folkways  Laws  Material culture  Mores  Nonmaterial culture  Norms  Sapir-Whorf hypothesis  Symbols  Values provide a THREE-PAGE write-up identifying the above aspects of culture as they relate to the place you have chosen to investigate. Provide visuals (photographic evidence) of the above concepts. define each concept and underline it as you connect it to what you have found.