The 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 society.
What is culture?
100
A thing that stands for or represents something else.
What is a symbol?
100
Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
What are norms?
100
Ideas about the nature of reality
What are beliefs?
100
Groupings of persons who share a social characteristic.
What is social categories?
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 culture.
What is material culture?
200
A group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects.
What is subculture?
300
innate (unlearned) patterns of behavior.
What is instincts?
300
The men that stated language is our guide to reality.
Who is Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf?
300
Norms that have moral dimmensions and that should be followed by members of the society.
What are mores?
300
Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept.
What is ideal culture?
300
A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture.
What is counter culture?
400
Automatic reaction to physical stimulus.
What is reflex?
400
A symbol that represents Tiger Woods.
What is Nike "swoosh"?
400
A rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment.
What is taboo?
400
Actual behavior patterns of members of a group.
What is real culture?
400
Judging others in terms of one's owns cultural standards.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Impulse to reduce discomfort.
What is drive?
500
Use paper walls to create the sense of privacy and are not bothered by noise in adjacent rooms.
Who are the Japanese?
500
A norm that is formally defined and enforced by officials.
What is law?
500
Ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior.
What is nonmaterial culture?
500
General culture traits that exist in all cultures.
What is cultural universals?
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