Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society.
What is culture?
100
A thing that stands for or represents something else.
What is symbol?
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
Theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely upon language.
What is hypothesis of linguistic relativity?
200
Norms that lack moral significance.
What are folkways?
200
The concrete, tangible objects of a society or culture.
What is material culture?
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
Language is our guide to reality.
What is Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
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
Automatic reaction to physical stimulus.
What is reflex?
400
Frees humans from the limits of time and place. It allows us to create and pass on culture.
What is language?
400
Sanctions imposed by persons given special authority.
What are formal sanctions?
400
Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept.
What is ideal culture?
400
General cultural traits that exist in all cultures.
What are cultural universals?
500
Impulse to reduce discomfort.
What is drive?
500
People can begin to view the world differently as they learn new language and...
What is vocabulary?
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
The ways in which a culture expresses universal traits.