Vocab
consists of objects
Material culture
Language, beliefs, values, norms, and material objects that are passed from one generation to the next
Culture
How do values, norms, sanctions, folkways and mores reflect culture?
They are the actions and ideas that help communicate and make up the foundation of ones culture
Do cultural universals exist?
Possibly
The entire human environment, including direct contact with others
Social environment
A group's ideal values
Ideal culture
When using your own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of others
ethnocentric
A group whose values and related behaviors distinguish its members from the general culture
Subculture
Values, norms, or other cultural traits that are found in all cultures
Cultural universals
Who won the first super bowl?
Greenbay Packers
People's actual behavior
Real Culture
Trying to understand other cultures on their terms
Relativism
Holds some values that stand in opposition to those of the dominant culture
Counterculture
How is technology changing culture?
Though everything is becoming more accessible technology is creating a world culture that is causing other cultures to slowly fade away
When is the Cheraw Haunted House
The 27th of October
Norms that are not strictly enforced
Folkways
Components of nonmaterial culture
Symbols, gestures, language, values, norms, sanctions, folkways, and mores
What are some core U.S. values?
Achievement and success
Individualism
Hard work
Efficiency and practicality
Science and technology
Material comfort
Freedom
Democracy
Equality
Group superiority
Education
Religiosity
Romantic love
How a group's nonmaterial culture lags behind its changing technology
Cultural lag
What is Anti-Semitism?
The hatred of Jews
Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or to the well-being of the group
Mores
Why is language so significant to culture?
It allows human experience to be goal-directed, cooperative, and cumulative
Made up of many groups, each with its own set of values, certain values dominate
Pluralistic society
Groups becoming similar as they adopt items from other cultures
Cultural leveling
Who did Abraham Lincoln defeat in is re-election for President?
George B. McLellan