Every kind of physical object produced by humans. From spears and plows to pots and CDs.
What is Material Culture?
100
You might be breaking one of these if you are wearing white to a wedding...and you're NOT the Bride!
What are Folkways?
100
A Culture within a larger culture.
What are Subcultures?
100
The attitude that one's own culture is superior to that of others.
What is Ethnocentrism?
100
The norms and values that support the actual behavior of people are called this kind of culture. (You can tell me we should obey the speed limit, but watching you drive tells me something else)
What is Real Culture?
200
Ideas that are subjective, unreliable, or unverifiable. (Religion)
What are Beliefs?
200
You may find that breaking one of these has life changing consequences. They are so important that these norms are specified in writing and backed by the power of the state.
What is a Law?
200
This type of subculture represents values that are unacceptable to the dominant culture and are generally considered illegal or criminal (gangs, drug users, and prostitutes)
What are Deviant Subcultures?
200
The belief that a culture must be understood on its own terms.
What is Cultural Relativism?
200
This hypothosis states that language shapes the way in which people perceive the world.
What is Sapir-Whorf Hypothosis
300
Socially shared ideas about what is good, desirable, or important.
What are values.
300
What are "strong" norms that specify normal behavior (car theft, shoplifting)
What are Mores?
300
This represents values unacceptable to the dominant society but not considered illegal or criminal (KKK, religious cults, and hippies)
What are Counter Cultures?
300
Cultures can be classified into large groupings and according to Huntington there have been 8 identified in the world.
What is Cultural Domains?
300
This is the name for unsophisticated, artistic creations that appeal to the masses of society.
What is Popular Culture?
400
Social rules that specify how people should behave.
What are Norms?
400
A postive one of these can range from a pat on the back to receiving an award infront of your collegues. A negative one can range from a dirty look to being executed for murder.
What is a Sanction?
400
These people merely differ from the dominant culture in some way. Their values are accepted in society (Amish or College Students)
What are Variant Subcultures?
400
A practice found in all cultures and used as a means to meet basic human needs.
What is a Cultural Universal?
400
The process by which people incorporate norms and values from other cultures.
What is Acculturation?
500
A complex whole consisting of objects, values, and other characteristics.
What is Culture.
500
You may be breaking this type of norm if you are singing or talking outloud in the library.
What are Folkways?
500
It's the view of the world from the stand point of European culture.
What is Eurocentrism?
500
A state in which all subcultures are equal to one another in the same society.
What is Multiculturalism?
500
The process by which a minority adopts the dominant group's culture as the culture of the larger society.