Talk:Introduction to Sociology/Culture

you use the same example about art in this chapter as you did in the previous chapter. Can you come up with a different example?

-Maybe later.

To do
(1) Extend the theory section on culture to include:
 * Structural-Functionalism
 * Culture is a complex strategy for meeting human needs.
 * Ignores cultural diversity
 * Social-Conflict Analysis
 * Culture and inequality; any cultural trait benefits some members of society at the expense of others
 * Understates the ways in which cultural patterns integrate members of society
 * Sociobiology and Symbolic Interactionism
 * Explores how human biology affects how culture is created; cultural universals reflect the necessities of continued life
 * Non-eugenicist; lack of evidence?

(2) Include cultural universals:
 * The Family
 * Funeral Rites
 * Smiling and Humor
 * Deviance

(3) Add section on norms, values, and sanctions.

(4) Add section on language and gestures.

Thomasfbrown (talk) 22:03, 3 November 2008 (UTC)