Basis of Culture
Language and Culture
Norms and Values
Beliefs and Material Culture
Cultural Diversity and Similarity
100
Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society
What is culture?
100
Something that stands for represents something else
What is a symbol?
100
Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior
What are norms?
100
Beliefs, Ideas and Knowledge
What does non material culture involve?
100
Groupings of people who share a social characteristic.
What are social categories?
200
A specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture
What is society?
200
Language
Humans can pass their experiences ideas and knowledge to others by using what?
200
Broad ideas about what most people in a society consider to be desirable
What are values?
200
The concrete or tangible objects within a culture
What is material culture consist of?
200
A group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects.
What is subculture?
300
Innate or unlearned patterns of behavior
What are instincts?
300
Theories stating that our idea of reality depends largely upon language
What is hypothesis of linguistic relativity
300
Norms and Values
What are two components of culture?
300
The meanings of physical objects are based on beliefs norms and values people hold with regard to them
How is material culture influenced by non material culture?
300
A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture
What is counterculture?
400
50%
What % of your personality is determined by genetics?
400
If it is important then it will have many words to describe it. If not it will have no words
What can vocabulary tell you about a culture?
400
Folkways, Mores, Laws
What are three basic types of norms?
400
Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
What is ideal culture?
400
Judging others in terms or ones own cultural standards
Define ethnocentrism
500
The study of the biological basis of human behavior.
What is sociobiology?
500
Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
According to what two men "language is our guide to reality"
500
A norm so strong that its violation demands puishment by the group
What is a taboo?
500
Ideal culture includes the guidelines we claim to accept, while real culture describes how we actually behave
How is real culture different from ideal culture?
500
Discovery, Invention and Diffusion
What are the 3 reasons culture changes
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