Definitions
The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable (good or bad)
Values
Normative Culture
Folkways, Mores, Taboos
The tendency to view one's culture as best and to judge others by those standards.
Ethnocentrism
Expectations or rules of behavior that develop to reflect and enforce values
Norms
Physical objects or man-made artifacts that people make and attach cultural meaning to constitute this in a society
Material Culture
Folkway - understood custom
More - customs that are strongly enforced and have a moral connection
Group rejects the major vales, norms, and practices of the larger society.
Counterculture
Language, beliefs, values, and material objects passed on from generation to generation.
Culture
Culture based on shared knowledge and beliefs
Cognitive Culture
Explain the difference between ideal norms and real norms.
Ideal - the expectations of society
Real - the realities of society
Groups within a culture that create their own social norms
Subcultures
When we are trying to understand a culture on its own terms
Cultural Relativism
Any object or thing that carries a specific meaning to a particular culture is considered part of their ____________.
Symbolic Culture
Students should not throw desks in a classroom. This is an example of a _________ norm.
folkway
Which sociological perspective believes that culture comes from norms that reinforce societal standards?
Functionalism
Disorientation that people experience when they are in a new culture is
Culture Shock
Common features that are found in all human cultures.
Cultural Universals
Which sociological perspective describes cultural norms that are reinforced through daily interactions among individuals?
Define the conflict perspectives view of culture:
Norms reinforce patterns of dominance