Types of Culture
What is counter culture?
A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs.
What is culture?
An experience of disorientation and frustration when people find themselves in a new culture.
What is culture shock?
The visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured.
What are norms?
A society who used simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food. With equal value of roles.
What is a hunter gatherer society?
The aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society.
What is material culture?
A group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture.
What is society?
What is ethnocentrism?
A culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in a society.
What are values?
A society comprised of small rural communities based in agriculture supplemented with hunting and gathering.
What are Agrarian Societies?
Nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture, including beliefs values rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and institutions
What is nonmaterial culture?
The spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another.
What is diffusion?
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies.
What are cultural universals?
Gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture.
What are symbols?
Societies based largely on agriculture, ruled by a king or emperor.
What are Traditional Societies?
A group that share a specific identification apart from a society's majority, even as the members exist within a larger society.
What are subcultures?
The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and non-material culture's acceptance of it.
What is cultural lag?
The deliberate imposition of one's cultural values on another group.
What is cultural imperialism?
What is language?
Societies marked by large technological advances, and considered the first nation-states
What are Industrialized Societies?
Mainstream, widespread patterns among a society's population.
Pop culture?
The integration of international trade and finance markets.
What is globalization.
The way that people understand the world based on their form of language.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis??
The standards a society would like to embrace and live up to.
What is an ideal culture?
A group of indigenous people who inhabit North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. This society is largely untouched by the outside world and is know for their hostility towards outsiders.
Who are the Sentinelese?