Components of Culture
Components of Culture
Vocabulary
Critical Thinking
Various Questions
100
Physical objects and rules for using those objects.
What is technology?
100
Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance.
What are Folkways?
100
Features common to all cultures.
What cultural universals?
100
Five examples of material culture (you must get all 5).
What are automobiles, clothing, cooking utensils, buildings, books.
100
Man who came up with the 65 cultural universals.
Who is George Murdoch.
200
The very basis of human culture, something that has shared meaning.
What is a symbol?
200
Norms that have great moral significance.
What are Mores.
200
The tendency to view ones own culture as superior.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
These are five examples of non-material culture (you must get all 5).
What are beliefs, ideas, language, rules, family patterns.
200
3 of Franklin's Virtues.
What is Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness.
300
One of the most obvious aspects of any culture, how people communicate.
What is language.
300
Written rules of conduct enforced by the government? The highest form of law? You must answer both parts for points.
What is 1. laws 2. Constitution
300
The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than applying the standards of another culture.
What is cultural relativism?
300
How mores, folkways, and laws differ.
Folkway - acceptable behavior with little moral significance. Mores - Acceptable behaviors with great moral significance. Laws - Written rules of conduct.
300
3 of Franklin's Values
What is Personal Achievement, Individualism, Work, Morality and Humanitarianism, Efficiency and Practicality, Progress and Material Comfort, Equality and Democracy, Freedom, Nationalism and Patriotism, Science and Rationality, Racial and group superiority.
400
Shared beliefs of what is good or bad, right or wrong, wanted or unwanted.
What are values?
400
Language, art, ceremonies, rituals. The elements that distinguish one group from another.
What is culture?
400
Broad cultural features that are not shared by the entire population.
What is a subculture?
400
The difference between a culture trait, culture complex, and culture pattern; specifically stated.
Trait - individual tool, act, or belief Complex - cluster of interrelated traits Pattern - combination of several complexes into an interrelated whole.
400
Something that stands for something else.
What is a symbol.
500
Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in certain situations.
What are Norms?
500
A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.
What is society?
500
The three examples of counterculture (you must name all three to get the credit).
What are hippies, anarchists, and organized crime.
500
How Margaret Meade contributed to the study of cultures (I"m looking for two answers).
What is she helped show how cultures can vary despite relatively close proximity. Nature v Nurture theory
500
Subcultures are always a product of which of the following: a. the media technology of the age b. middle-class, suburban discontent c. the military-industrial complex d. experimentation with drugs
What is a. the media technology of the age.
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