Misc. Unit 2
Name THREE things that make up a person's culture
Options: Art/literature, religion, language, traditions, behaviors, beliefs/attitudes, etc
The unequal distribution of wealth, power, and opportunities.
Social inequality
Strict norms that everyone must follow - things are defined as legal/illegal
Laws
The prevailing attitudes, trends, fashions, causes, and entertainment consumed by the youth
What is the smallest country in the world?
The Vatican City
Collective ideas about what is right and wrong
Values
The emergence of machine production based on power sources like steam or electricity. It involves things like factories and wage labor.
Industrialization
Things that people find offensive and socially inappropriate if you are caught doing them.
Taboos
A category of people who share certain characteristics, values, beliefs and norms that set them apart in some significant way
Subculture
This is the national animal of Australia.
An emu
A set of symbols that express ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another
Language
Societies whose subsistence comes from domesticated animals or farming. The opposite of industrialized.
Agrarian or pastoral
Moral norms that have to do with right vs. wrong. They’re often linked to religious rules.
Mores
A group that strongly rejects the dominant societal norms and values
Counterculture
Which dinosaur supposedly had the smallest brain?
Stegosaurus
The process by which an increasing proportion of a population lives in cities
Urbanization
Refers to developing South American, Asian, and African nations that underwent a long history of colonization
The "Global South"
Customs that we follow but are often not written down. We learn them through intuition as we grow up.
Folkways
Consists of intellectual human creations of society that influence our behavior
Nonmaterial culture
How many US states DON'T have a known native species of poisonous snake?
Four (Maine, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Alaska)
A term that refers to the spread of culture across different regions and people.
Cultural diffusion
A theory where society is shaped by competition for power and resources. Inequality benefits people in power.
Conflict theory
Punishments or rewards for following or breaking norms are called
Sanctions
Customs and practices that occur in all societies
Cultural universal
What is the name of the tallest mountain in Africa?
Kilimajaro