Culture Universals
This includes someones outer look, such as bodily adornment and hairstyles
What is Appearance?
This is when the dominant group structures social institutions to maintain minimal contact with members of minority groups.
What is segregation?
The four main elements of culture are.
What are symbols, values, language, & norms?
Political Ideas, Environmental Concerns, Health Concerns, and Social Issues are all causes for
What is cultural change?
_______ _______ refers to the differences in social behaviours that different cultures exhibit around the world
What is cultural variation?
This includes things such as sports, games, dancing, visiting, and jokes.
The view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgement of their differences within a dominant political culture.
What is multiculturalism?
Activities, products and services that are assumed to appear primarily to members of the middle and working classes
What is popular culture?
This is finding something that was previously unknown or recognized.
What is discovery?
Groups that share in certain parts of the mainstream culture but have distinctive values, norms, beliefs, symbols, language and/or material culture that set them apart in some way
What are subcultures?
Includes traditions such as cooking, folklore, gift giving, and hospitality
What are Customary Practices?
This is when the dominant group seeks to try and destroy the minority group.
What is genocide?
These determine what is considered moral and ethical behaviour
What are Mores?
The transmission of cultural items or social practices from one group of society to another
What is diffusion?
The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own.
What is culture shock?
Includes things such as religion, government, economics, law, school, and family
What are Social Institutions?
Term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society.
What is pluralism?
A gap between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institutions or when one generation of the culture may adapt to change quickly while another does not
What is Cultural Lag?
The process of reshaping existing cultural items into a new form.
What is Invention?
The tendency to regard one’s own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior
What is ethnocentrism?
Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people’s behaviour. For, example, People's beliefs.
Non-material culture
This is when the dominant group exploits the minority group for economic gain.
What is internal colonization?
Mead’s study concluded that Temperament results from _______, not from your genetics
What is culture?
These parts of culture are more likely to be diffused than others?
What is material culture?
Used to describe a group whose values and norms of behaviour run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition.
What are countercultures?
Clothing, Shelter & Transportation are all examples of this type of culture
What is material culture?
This is when the dominant group absorbs the minority groups into their culture.
What is assimilation?
when members of a majority group adopt cultural elements of a minority group in an exploitative, disrespectful, or stereotypical way
What is appropriation?
Culture is learned, shared, transmitted, cumulative and _____.
What is human?
The belief that the behaviours and customs of a society must be viewed and analyzed by the culture’s own standards
What is relativism?