Concepts
Idea of judging other cultures by your own cultural standards, values and beliefs
Ethnocentrism
Any thing that has mutually understood meaning and stands for something else
Symbol
Taking a guy's truck without his permission and driving it to St. George, leaving it abandoned on the side of the highway.
Law
The development of the wheel in ancient Sumeria would exemplify this type of cultural change
Understanding the ideas about right and wrong are relative to the beliefs and values of a particular culture
Cultural Relativism
Ideas about the nature of reality
Beliefs
Eating pork in Islamic & Jewish cultures
Taboo
Aspects of culture that are tangible
Material Culture
Theory that language is the guide to reality.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Theory of Linguistic Relativity)
Ideas about what is good & bad
Values
forming a line at the cashier in the busy store
Folkway
This term refers to failure to comply with norms
deviance
Values & beliefs that a group claims to accept vs. the values and beliefs they may actually hold can be described as...
Ideal vs. Real Culture
Rewards or punishments used to enforce appropriate social behaviour
Sanctions
Chewing gum while receiving holy communion
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American Anthropologist who wrote about the Mysterious Nacirema
Horace Miner
The idea that technology can produce changes in a society faster than values and beliefs can adapt
Cultural Lag
Behaviour that goes against established norms
Deviance
To sit down when you eat a meal
Folkway
A guilty conscience would be an example of this type of social control
Internal