culture
learned customs, knowledge, material objects, language, religion, and behavior
culture
Fastest component of culture to change
material
strongly held, have moral connotation
mores
share distinctive patterns of mores, folkways, and values that differ from larger society
subculture
Beliefs, ideas, and knowledge
nonmaterial culture
Some personality traits are determined by genetic makeup, this is called what?
Heredity
Thinking component – shared knowledge and beliefs.
Cognitive
Daily Double: understood customs
Folkways
Subculture that conspicuously and deliberately opposes certain aspects of larger culture
counterculture
Traits that exist in all cultures
Cultural Universals
culture’s general orientation toward life
values
anything humans make /use
material
unthinkable
Taboos
Tendency to assume that one’s own culture/way of life represents norms of others or is superior to others
ethnocentrism
Ways a culture expresses universal traits
Cultural Particulars
name one of the core American values
Equal Opportunity
Achievement and Success
Material Comfort
Activity and Work
Practicality and Efficiency
Progress
Science
Democracy and Enterprise
Freedom
Knowledge, beliefs, values, & rules for appropriate behavior
Normative
formal agreements of what is acceptable behavior with consequences
laws
An individual should be understood in terms of his/her own culture
Cultural Relativism
expectations of what people should do under perfect conditions
ideal norms
borrowing of aspects of culture from one to another
diffusion
Anything that carries particular meaning recognized by people who share culture
symbols
penalties and rewards for conduct
sanctions
Daily Double: what does Y stand for in the ABCs of culture
Yum (food)
What people actually do
Real Norms