Human Behavior
Language and Culture
Essential Components of Culture
Enforcing the Rules
Cultural Guidelines
100

This term refers to the knowledge, language, values, customs, and physical objects that are passed from generation to generation

What is Culture?

100

Something that stands for or represents something else

What are Symbols?

100

These are rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior

What are Norms?

100
These are rewards and punishments imposed by those with special authority such as judges
What are Formal Sanctions?
100

These are the beliefs, ideas, and knowledge that influence people's behavior

What is Non-material Culture?

200

A group of people who live in a defined territory and participate in a common culture

What is a Society

200

This allows humans to create culture. It frees humans from the limits of time and place. It allows people to read, discuss, and recombine existing ideas and technology.

What is Language?

200

These are norms that lack a moral significance. They are customs or manners

What are Folkways?

200

These are rewards and punishments that can be applied by most members of a society

What are Informal Sanctions?

200

These are ideas about the nature of reality

What are Beliefs?

300
Inherited patterns of behavior. Non-human animals are dependent on these for survival
What are Instincts?
300

The theory that states that our idea of reality depends largely upon language

What is the Hypothesis of Linguistic Relativity?

300

These are norms that have a moral significance and should be followed by members of the society. They are vital to the well-being of a society

What are Mores?

300
These are broad ideas about what most people in a society consider to be desirable
What are Values?
300

These are the concrete, tangible objects found in a culture

What is Material Culture

400
These are automatic reactions to physical stimuli
What are reflexes?
400

A subculture is a group that deliberately opposes the beliefs of the dominant culture. True or False?

What is False?

400

These are norms that are formally defined and enforced by officials

What are Laws?

400

Carlos's first-grade teacher is teaching him that he should speak in class only after raising his hand and being called on. What is this an example of?

What is a Norm?

400

These are cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept

What is Ideal Culture?

500
This is the study of the biological basis of human behavior
What is Sociobiology?
500

People who begin to learn a new language often start to view the world differently.  True or False?

What is True?

500

These are rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms

What are Sanctions?

500

This is a rule of behavior that is very serious. A violation of this calls for a very strong punishment

What is a Taboo?

500

This means judging people based on one's own cultural guidelines or standards. It can lead to racism

What is Ethnocentrism?

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