Non-material Culture
What does non-material culture consists of?
nonphysical products of society, symbols, values, rules and sanctions.
What are Norms?
They develop rules for appropriate behavior based on values and vary from place to place.
Represents a culture's actual behaviors.
Real Culture
What is Cultural Transmission?
Culture often passes from one generation to the next through language.
What are Gestures?
Symbols we make using our bodies, such as facial expressions, hand movements, eye contact, and other types of body languages.
What is symbols?
What is a sanction?
A prize or punishment you receive when you either abide by a norm or violate it.
Represents the values to which a culture aspires.
Ideal Culture
What not only advances our knowledge but also bring us together by helping us create social consensus or agreement?
Languages
What are two or more values that support each other?
Value Clusters
Some language exist only in the ____ while other languages are expressed through both speech and writing systems.
Oral Tradition
What are informal types of norms?
Folkways
What consists of a deliberate effort to appreciate a group's ways of life in its own context, without prejuice?
Cultural Reliatiuism
Concept that supports the inherent value of different cultures in a society?
Multiculturalism
A part of a society's nonmaterial culture, represent cultural standards by which we determine what is good, bad, right, or wrong
Values
Assimilation
Norms that represents a community's most important values?
Mores
What occurs when a person uses his or her own culture to judge another culture?
Ethnocentrism
What strongly influenced the speaker's worldview?
Structure of a language
What helps us define values, usually in terms of opposites
Value Pairs
What did Noam Chomsky suggest?
Suggested that human beings' ability to use language comes from common roots.
Folkways are often _____ when violated, call for minor informal negative sanctions if any at all.
social customs
Refer to fear and hostility toward people who are from other countries or cultures.
Xenophobia
Research into the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis suggest that because language influences two things
thinking and culture
What is capable of growth and change, so it is possible for a cultures' values to change over time?
Cultures