The Basis of Culture
Language and Culture
Norms and Values
Belifs 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
The theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely upon language.
What is the hypothesis of linguistic relativity?
100
A rule defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
What is a norm?
100
Ideas about the nature of reality.
What are beliefs?
100
The process of finding something that already exists.
What is discovery?
200
A specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture.
What is a society?
200
These range from physical objects to sounds, smells, and tastes.
What are symbols?
200
Supporting school activities, speaking to other students in the hall, and removing your hat in church.
What are folkways?
200
The concrete, tangible objects of a culture.
What is a material culture?
200
The creation of something new.
What is invention?
300
Half of this is inherited.
What are personality traits?
300
"Language is our guide to reality"
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
300
Forbidding the killing of cows in India is an example of this.
What are taboos?
300
Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept.
What is an ideal culture?
300
The borrowing of aspects of culture from other cultures.
What is diffusion?
400
The study of the biological basis of human behavior.
What is sociobiology?
400
This frees humans from the limits of time and place.
What is language?
400
Not stopping at a stop sign is an example of breaking this.
What are laws?
400
Actual behavior patterns of members of a group.
What is a real culture?
400
The Olympic games are an example of this.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
These men determined that stepfathers are more likely than biological fathers to abuse their children.
Who are Daly and Wilson?
500
This man wrote "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
500
Freedom is an example of this.
What are values?
500
ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior.
What is a nonmaterial culture?
500
Sports, cooking, courtship, division of labor, education,etiquette, and language are examples of this.
What are cultural universals?
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