norms and values
Mores and Folkways
Sanctions
Deviance
Cultural variations/ Laws of society
100
These are based on common values of a group and are shared rules of conduct
What are norms?
100
Norms that express a society’s ideas of right and wrong
What are mores
100
Rewards or punishments to enforce conformity to norms
What is a sanction?
100
Negative mores- “Thou shalt not”
What are taboos?
100
features common to all cultures
What is cultural universals?
200
The ideas and things considered important by people
What are values?
200
Less strictly enforced standards or behaviors that are not related to morality; these are more like preferences
What are folkways?
200
An A on test, certificate, raise
What is an example of a positive formal sanction?
200
a behavior that violates an essential social norm or set of norms; go beyond limits of socially acceptable behavior
What is deviance?
200
belief that culture should be judged by their own standards
What is cultural relativism?
300
rules of behavior in school, church or on job; fashions and fads
What is an example of a norm?
300
Rules stating what must be done
What are prescriptions
300
Pat on back, smile etc
What is an example of a positive informal sanction?
300
The tendency to see the world in terms of right or wrong or ethical or unethical
What is moral orientation?
300
rituals that mark the termination of one stage and the beginning of another; graduation ; baptism; marriage etc.
What is a rite of passage and an example of one?
400
Potlach- the giving way of material possessions as a means of glorifying oneself
What do Kwakiutl (Indians of British Columbia) value?
400
Rules forbidding certain behaviors
What are proscriptions?
400
F on test, kicked out of Beta, kicked off team
What is an example of a negative formal sanction?
400
4 features of a controlled environment
What are : 1)activities occur in same place/ under control of same authority 2) Activities of daily life take place in Company of others in same situation. 3)daily activities are set by authority 4)goal of all activities is to fulfill purpose of organization
400
focuses on how people learn the different rules of behavior that apply to the different stages of the life cycle.
What is socialization?
500
self-control and inoffensiveness
What do Zuni place their highest value on?
500
U-shaped line
What kind of line do cultural norms fall along?
500
Booing someone, frown
What is an example of negative informal sanction?
500
Anomie, deviant subcultures, and labeling
What are 3 theories of deviance?
500
prohibition; civil rights
What are examples of legislating morality?
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