Cultural Traits
The structures and organization of a culture which influence social behavior.
Sociofacts
In Israel the government communicates to its people by speaking Hebrew. And is spoken in most schools, works places, and their mass media. What is this an example of?
An institutional language
What are the first and second most widely used language families?
Indo-European and Sino Tibetan
Your culture is at the center, you prefer your culture over others.
Ethnocentrism
Pop culture is homogeneous and folk culture is heterogeneous. True or False and explain. Your answer may be different than what is exactly written and that is okay as long as it is the same idea.
False because pop culture cannot be homogeneous because of pop culture's diversity among the people within that culture and homogeneous means the same or similar. It is the same, but the opposite, with folk culture. It cannot be heterogeneous because folk culture is more uniform and less diverse and heterogeneous means not the same, different.
In order from slowest to fastest to change, list the 3 cultural traits.
Mentifacts, sociofacts, and artifacts
Is used for face to face communication but is losing users.
Threaten language
Which branch of the Indo-European family has the most users?
Indo-Iranian
The idea that culture can be separate and distinct from one another and still co-exist
Multi-culturalism
Choose all that apply
Popular culture frequents more in
A. rural areas
B. urbanized areas
C. cultural or diversity oppressive areas
D. more developed areas
E. all of the above
In a quinceañera and a bat mitzvah or bar mitzvah they believe the young boys and girls to become men and woman at specific ages. What is this an example of in culture?
Mentifacts
What is a dying language?
A dying language is still used by older people but is not being transmitted to children.
What is a language branch and a language group?
A language branch is a collection of languages within a family related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago. A language group is a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in relatively recent past and display many similarities in grammar and vocabulary.
In a culture it is a common delicacy to have bugs in their recipes. When you hear of this you are interested at the information and do not judge it. What is this an example of?
Cultural Relativism
Why do people try so desperately to preserve folk culture?
They don't want to lose old traditions and they have a strong desire to keep their culture alive because technology is allowing pop culture to spread farther and affect the existence of their culture.
Choose all that apply
What can be some examples of material culture?
A. Technology
B. Clothes
C. laws
D. cars
E. words
Answers A,B,D
What is lingua franca and is it a centrifugal or centripetal force? Name a major lingua franca.
A lingua franca is a language of international communication. It is a centripetal force. A major lingua franca is English.
What are the four widely used language branches from the Indo-European language family?
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, and Balto-Slavic
Laws, language, values, customs, and knowledge are all examples of non-material culture. True or false
True
How does technology aid in the diffusion of pop culture and what diffusion does pop culture diffuse by?
Technology allows popular culture to spread to all around the world without people even moving which aids in pop culture's expansion diffusion.
What is the definition of cultural traits?
Cultural traits are the identifiable elements of a cultural complex.
Where do people believe or speculate that languages started and why?
Linguists believe that languages started in Africa because there are so many languages there and they are all very diverse and developed.
The major language families in Africa are Afro-Asiatic (dominates most of North Africa), Niger-Congo (dominates 95% of people in Sub-Sahara), and Nilo-Saharan (spoken in North-Central Africa). Why isn't there a language Family for Southern Africa in this list?
There is no African language family for Southern Africa because they mostly speak English due to being conquered by Europeans and the Europeans making English the dominating language.
What is a result of technology that has affected culture?
A result of technology is cultural convergence, globalization of culture which causes culture to be farther spread out which in doing so makes the world more diverse in culture.
The Amish are an example of people who practice _______ culture.
Folk