The knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
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Define what is a symbol.
"Anything that meaningfully represents something else".
100
What is cultural lag and who coined this term?
A gap between technical development (material culture) and it's moral and legal institutions (non material culture).
This term was coined by William F. Ogburn
100
What is the difference between high and popular culture?
High Culture: Various activities usually patronized by elite audiences (upper-middle/upper-class).
Popular Culture: Activities, products and services that are assumed primarily to members of the middle class.
100
What are the four perspectives you can find related to this chapter?
Give 2 examples of high culture and 2 examples of popular culture.
High culture: classical music, opera, ballet, live theatre
Popular culture: rock concerts, spectator sports, movies, TV soap operas, situation comedies, internet)
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A functionalist analysis of culture assumes what?
"That a common language and shared values help product consensus and harmony".
300
Define "drives".
Determined impulses common to all members of a species that satisfy needs (sleep, food, water, etc).
300
What is language? Name the two types of language.
"A system of symbols that express ideas and enables people to thing and communicate with one another.
1.Verbal or spoken
2. Nonverbal or written/gestured
300
What is cultural diversity? What circumstances can cause cultural diversity between countries?
The wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations.
1. Natural: climate or geography
2. Social: technology and consumption of population
300
What are the three prevalent forms of popular culture?
1. Fads
2. Fashion
3. Leisure
300
Conflict theorists looking at culture suggest that ideas are a cultural creation of what?
"Societies most powerful members and can be used by the ruling class to affect the thoughts and actions of members of other classes".
400
What 2 components make up your "cultural toolbox".
1. Material Culture
2. Nonmaterial Culture
400
Values are ....
"Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture" (Williams, 1970).
400
What was the main example used in the presentation of a subculture and what did their core values include?
"The Hutterites"
Core values: joy of work, primacy of the home, faithfulness, thriftiness, tradition and humility.
400
What are the four major categories you can divide a fad into?
Within the Symbolic interactionist perspective, interactionists suggest that people do what?
create, maintain and modify culture during their everyday activities.
500
Name the four categories which encompass "Cultural Universal"
1. Appearance (hair styles)
2. Activities (sports, dancing)
3. Social institution (family, law)
4. Customary practices (hospitality, give giving).
500
What are norms and name and define their two categories.
Norms are established rules of behaviours or standards of conduct within culture.
1. Prescriptive norms: State behaviours that are acceptable
2. Proscriptive norms: State behaviours that are unacceptable.
500
What is culture shock and give an example from the video shown.
Culture Shock: The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own.
500
What is Cultural Imperialism?
The extensive infusion of one's nation's culture into other nations.
500
According to the postmodern perspective, we should....
"Deconstruct existing beliefs and theories about culture in order to gain new insights" and "culture today is based on a simulation of reality rather than reality itself"