Basis of Culture
Language and Culture
Norms and Values
Beliefs and Material Culture
Culture Diversity and Similarity
100
refers to the knowledge, language, values, customs and physical objects that are passed from generation to generation among members of a group
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
The concrete, tangible objects of a culture.
What is material culture?
100
General cultural traits that exist in all culture.
What is cultural universal?
200
A specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture
What is society?
200
Frees humans from the limits of time and place.
What is language?
200
Norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society.
What are mores?
200
Involves ideas and knowledge that influence people's behavior.
What is nonmaterial culture?
200
Groupings of persons who share a social characteristic.
What are social categories?
300
Genetically inherited patterns of behavior.
What are instincts?
300
The important American concept, we talked about in class, that has many words to describe its different intervals.
What is time?
300
A norm that is formally defined and enforced by officials.
What is law?
300
Cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept.
What is ideal culture?
300
A group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects.
What is subculture?
400
Automatic reaction to physical stimulus.
What is a reflex?
400
The famous duo that were the first men to fly.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
400
Norms that lack moral significance.
What is a folkway?
400
Ideas about the nature of reality.
What are beliefs?
400
A subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture.
What is counterculture?
500
The study of the biological basis of human behavior.
What is sociobiology?
500
Theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely upon language.
What is the hypothesis of linguistic relativity?
500
A rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment.
What is taboo?
500
The passed process of assisting childbirth with a newspaper and pepper.
What is nettling?
500
Judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards
What is ethnocentrism?
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