The Basis of Culture
Language and Culture
Norms and values
Beliefs and Material Culture
Cultural Diversity and Similarity
100
is or refers to knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society.
What is the definition of culture?
100
A thing that stands for or represents something else.
What is a symbol?
100
norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society.
What is the term mores?
100
beliefs, ideas, and knowledge
What is a nonmaterial culture?
100
groupingws of persons who share a social characteristic
What are social categories?
200
A group of people who live in a specific terrritory and participate in a common culture
What is a society?
200
Hypothesis of linguistic relativity
what is the theory stating that our idea of reality depends largely upon language?
200
a rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment.
What is a taboo?
200
ideas about the nature of reality
What is belief?
200
judging others in terms of ones own cultural standards
What is ethonocentrism?
300
Genetically inherited patterns or behavior
What are instincts?
300
It gives us a way to communicate.
How does language affect culture?
300
rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms.
What is sanction?
300
the concrete, tangible objects of a culture.
What is Material culture?
300
a gorup that is part of the dominant culture but that differs fom it in some imprtant respects.
What is subculture?
400
Impulse to reduce discompfort
What is a drive?
400
Germans have a closed door policy, while americans have and open door policy.
How is our culture different from those of the germans?
400
sanctions imposed by persons given special authority.
What is a formal sanction?
400
actual behavior patterns of a group
What is Real Culture?
400
a subculture deliberately and consiously opposed to certain ventral beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture.
What is counterculture?
500
the importance placed on genetics could be placed on genetics could be used as a justification to lavel specific races as superior or inferior.
What is the major criticism of sociobiology?
500
to have a different understanding on piticular things we are describing or (looking at).
How come we hae so many different perspectives?
500
rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group.
What is an informal sanction?
500
cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept
What is ideal culture?
500
general cultural tratis that exist in all cultures
What is a cultural universe?
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