Key Terms
Types of Government
Rules
Values
Key Terms II
100
Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society.
What is culture?
100
People elect others to vote and review issues for them in society.
What is a Republic?
100
Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
What are norms?
100
Ideas about the nature of reality.
What are beliefs?
100
A group that is part of the dominant culture, yet differs from it in some important respects.
What is subculture?
200
A specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture.
What is society?
200
In this form of government a small group of people hold power and pass it on through their family.
What is Oligarchy?
200
Norms that lack moral significance.
What are folkways?
200
These are informal rules and behaviors a people follows. .
What are folkways?
200
A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture.
What is counterculture?
300
Innate patterns of behavior.
What is instinct?
300
Authoritarian rule by one person, usually supported by the military.
What is Dictatorship?
300
Norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society.
What are mores?
300
Ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior.
What is nonmaterial culture?
300
Judging another society or culture based upon one's own cultural standards.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
To change one's surroundings.
What is Alter?
400
In this government the citizens vote on every issue.
What is Direct Democracy?
400
Sanctions imposed by persons given special authority.
What are formal sanctions?
400
Cultural guidelines that are more strict and often become laws.
What are mores?
400
This is the "Keystone" of culture.
What is Language?
500
To change your patterns to survive.
What is Adapt?
500
Rule by the wealthiest of a group.
What is Plutocracy?
500
Rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group; spontaneous sanctions that don't necessarily carry the force of official authority.
What are informal sanctions?
500
Actual behavior patterns of members of a group.
What is real culture?
500
A thing that stands for or represents something else.
What is a symbol?
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