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The culture of any society is usually thought to be of two kinds: material and nonmaterial. Material culture includes the man-made phenomena which have physical properties such as height, breadth, and weight. A boat, a machine, a house—all these objects are part of the material culture. The nonmaterial culture is that portion of the environment which surrounds man and which has an impact on his behavior but which lacks these material properties: values, beliefs, traditions, and all the other habits and ideas invented and acquired by man as a member of society.

Contemporary sociological theory tends to assign primary importance to the nonmaterial culture in choosing problems for study. It assumes, for example, that boats, planes, automobiles, and so forth, are not nearly so important as the traditions we have developed which make their manufacture possible—indeed, which prescribe how we are to use them. The emphasis of contemporary sociology is to insist th

任何社会的文化通常被认为是两种:物质和非物质。物质文化包括人为的现象,如高度,宽度的物理特性,和重量。小船,一台机器,一所房子,所有这些对象是物质文化的一部分。在非物质文化是环境包围的男子,并已对他的行为影响,但缺乏这些物质的属性:值的一部分,信仰,传统,和所有其他习惯和观念发明和男子获得作为社会的一员。

当代社会学理论倾向于分配在选择研究问题的首要重视非物质文化。它假定,例如,船只,飞机,汽车,等等,却没有如此重要,我们开发这使他们的制造成为可能,事实上,它规定我们如何使用它们的传统。当代社会学的重点是要坚持物质文化就不会存在已不是第一次了非物质文化提供建议是在物质文化的发明所体现的思想。