Norms/Values
What are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members?
What are norms?
An identifiable culture nested within a larger culture.
What is a subculture?
A position someone receives at birth.
What is an ascribed status?
An institution that controls every aspect of a person's life.
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The idea that the human body is ugly and prone to disease is most in line with what group of people?
What are the nacirema?
A culture that favors creative living, diversity of norms or values, and has a high tolerance for cultural deviance.
What is a loosely bound culture?
The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and become aware of themselves as they interact with others.
What is socialization?
Prison and Marine Bootcamps are examples of what?
The number of oceans on Earth.
What is 5?
What serve as broad guidelines for social living?
What are values?
A culture that favors traditional living and has clearly defined expectations, values, norms, cultural hierarchies, and intolerance of deviance.
What is a tightly bound culture?
A solid foundation of cultural knowledge and understanding provided by the family or significant others at a young age.
What is primary socialization?
The process of mentally and emotionally retraining a person to operate in an environment other than that to which they are accustomed.
What is resocialization?
The most listened-to artist of 2023.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Standing right next to someone on an elevator and starting a long conversation would be a violation of this type of norm
What is folkway?
The person who claims culture socializes us into having shared understandings or collective action for better communication and goal attainment.
Who is Howard Becker?
What are family, religion, and politics examples of in the context of socialization?
What are agents of Socialization?
Widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves.
What is the Generalized other?
What percent of gene overlap do humans have with fruit flies?
What is 60%?
The expectation to keep bodily sounds to yourself in public is an example of what
What is prescriptive norm?
Creating these intensifies subcultural identities and can lead to cultural conflicts.
What are cultural boundaries?
Secondary socialization is the acquisition of what?
What is role-specific knowledge?
Total institutions resocialize individuals by altering this aspect through the manipulation of their environment.
What is personality or identity?
The country that consumes the most chocolate per capita.
What is Switzerland?