Culture and Society to Cultural Universals
Components of Culture
Values, Folkways,Mores or Laws
Cultural Diversity
Sociological Analysis of Culture
100
Consists of physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use and share.
What is Material Culture?
100
Anything that meaningfully represents something else.
What is a Symbol?
100
University students should adhere to the academic integrity and honesty, cheating and plagiarism is not allowed.
What is a More
100
"The practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture"
What is Ethnocentrism?
100
The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own.
What is Culture Shock?
200
Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influences people’s behaviour.
What is non-material culture?
200
A set of symbols that express ideas and enable to think and communicate with one another.
What is Language?
200
Abusing children is prohibited worldwide
What is a law?
200
Modification of a society through innovation, invention, discovery, or contact with other societies
What is Cultural change?
200
An integrated system of ideas that is external to, and coercive of people.
What is Ideology?
300
Customs and practices that occur across all societies
What is universal cultures?
300
An example of a "genderless" occupation title.
What is firefighter or flight attendant?
300
In the ancient times of China, most families believe that having boys born is better than having girls born, because a boy can inherit his family’s properties when he grows up.
What is a value?
300
Muslims, Italian Canadians, Orthodox, Jews, Gen Xers and the Hutterites are examples of?
What is Subcultures?
300
This perspective is based on the assumption that society is a stable,orderly system with interrelated parts that serve specific functions.
What is functionalist perspective?
400
The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
What is culture?
400
Four common non-material cultural components.
What are symbols, language,values and norms?
400
In most countries, looking into one’s eyes when he or she is talking to you shows your respect.
What is a folkway?
400
The most common means through which cultures spread are? Name any 2.
What is Communication, travelling, migration, commerce and trade?
400
a situation in which the simulation of reality is more real than the thing itself
What is hyper reality?
500
The knowledge, techniques, and tools that make it possible for people to transform resources into usable forms, and the knowledge and skills required to use them after they are developed.
What is technology?
500
According to the ________________ hypothesis language shapes the view of reality of its speakers.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
500
Driving when you are drunk will not only endanger your life but also other people’s lives therefore do not drink and drive.
What is a law?
500
The wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations.
What is cultural diversity?
500
This perspective assumes that symbols may include wedding bands, vows of life-long commitment, a white bridal dress, a wedding cake, a Church ceremony, and flowers and music which are a cultural practice in the 21st century.
What is Symbolic Interactionist perspective?
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