the basics
This term describes the way of life of a society
What is culture?
These groups are part of a dominant culture but differs from it in some important respects, for example, Bronies and Pegasisters
What are subcultures?
The action of judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards
What is ethnocentrism?
Name the three types of rules that guide behavior in society
What are folkways, mores, and laws?
The process of learning to participate in group life
What is socialization?
This term can mean to operate a motor vehicle or an impulse to reduce discomfort
What is drive?
This type of subculture deliberately and consciously opposes certain beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture
What is a counterculture?
The opposite of ethnocentrism
What is cultural relativism?
An extreme more, the violation of which calls for strong punishment
What is a taboo?
This feral child was locked away by her father until the age of thirteen, inhibiting her ability to socialize
Who is Genie Wiley?
This is the passing of culture from generation to generation
What is cultural transmission?
This aspect of culture is comprise of the concrete, tangible objects that people assign value
What is material culture?
Ethnocentrism is the reason for this feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar way of life
What is culture shock?
The broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society
What are values?
Norms with moral significance
What are mores?
A sneeze would classify as this kind of automatic reaction to a physical stimuli
What is reflex?
The actual behavior patterns of members of a group
What is real culture?
A general cultural trait that exists in all cultures
What is a cultural universal?
An example of this type of norm is the speed limit
What is a law?
Name these three reasons for cultural changes
What are discovery, invention, and diffusion?
This alliterative debate questions which has more influence on behavior: genetics or environment
What is nature v nurture?
The cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
What is ideal culture?
The ways in which a culture expresses universal traits
What are cultural particulars?
Rewards or punishments to encourage conformity to norms imposed by ordinary members of society
What are informal sanctions?
This experimenter studied the impact of isolation on socialization using monkeys
Who was Harry Harlow?