SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

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. Your assignment is to 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. Not only will you 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
Please 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. Please define each concept and underline it as you connect it to what you have found. Make sure you identify the name and location of your chosen business.
Please post your article and pictures by the due date. Please create a PowerPoint presentation of your findings and post it on the course website on-line forum.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: YOU MUST RECEIVE PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER BEFORE YOU DO THE ASSIGNMENT! LET THEM KNOW IT IS A CLASS ASSIGNMENT