Blog 2- Classifying Culture

There are many different aspects of culture. You have, beliefs, ideas, traditions, symbols, norms, and a common language. Without these things you do not have a culture. Take our culture for example, we are mostly a christian nation, we have traditions such as calendar holidays, we have English as a common language, we have a written language and we have social norms and ideas. When we have to classify cultures we have to ask ourselves some questions. Do we share the same elements from our culture with another culture? I think every culture has some common elements with other cultures. Christianity is a worldwide religion and can be found in many cultures. We also need to ask if these elements are different, as in we need to look at how the elements shared in different cultures are the same or different in relation to each culture. Finally we need to look at if the elements of a culture are borrowed from another culture. Many of the elements in our culture have came from Europe. I think classifying culture is a huge aspect of Sociologists. They study different cultures and norms of cultures which I think is very important.

This video deals with ethnocentrism and gives us a perspective of how we may not see other cultures as we should. It shows us that when sociologists classify cultures it helps us to understand the cultural relativism and how we need to see other cultures as equally as ours.