Distinctions in Culture
Levels of Culture
Cultural Standards
Culture is ...
Mechanisms of Cultural Change
100
Distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration.
What is a cultural particularity
100
A general compliance with the legal system, participation in formal elections and membership in voluntary and faith-based organizations and associations, as a varied as these may be in missions.
What is civic culture?
100
In anthropology, cultural relativism is not considered a moral position but a .....
What is methodological?
100
Actual observed behaviour
What is real culture?
100
Borrowing of cultural traits between societies, either directly or through intermediaries
What is diffusion
200
Something that exists in every culture
What is cultural universality
200
the generally accepted social behaviours, dress codes, speech and other forms of expression that we enact in public spaces, including bars, parks, malls, and even grieving sites, such as Ground Zero in the United States of America.
What is public culture?
200
What question is one faced with when intervention is in question from a cultural relativist perspective
What is the moral question?
200
Consists of what a people say they should do and what they say they do.
What is an ideal culture?
200
The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.
What is acculturation
300
an individual item in a culture, such as a particular belief, tool or practice
What is a cultural trait?
300
Different cultural traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society.
What is a subculture?
300
Key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture and help distinguish it from others.
What is core values?
300
Something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection.
What is a symbol?
300
Development of the same cultural trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances
What is independent invention
400
Culture pattern or trait that exists in some but not all societies.
What is cultural generalities
400
experiences, beliefs, customs and values shared by people who have grown up in the same country
What is national culture?
400
The position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect. Extreme relativism argues that cultures should be judged solely by their own standards
What is cultural relativism?
400
The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across the generations. ethnocentrism-The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards.
What is enculturation?
400
The accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems
What is globalization
500
a coherent set of interrelated traits
What is a cultural pattern?
500
Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.
What is international culture?
500
the tendency to use one's own cultural standards and values in judging the behaviour and beliefs of people from different cultures
What is ethnocentrism
500
Cultures are traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, that govern the beliefs and behaviors of the people exposed to them.
What is culture?
500
When one culture subjugates another and imposes its customs on the dominated group
What is forced diffusion
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