Culture
Components
of Culture
Norms
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Culture can be split up into two main categories that define both inanimate objects and ways of behaving and thinking, these categories are labeled as...

What is material v non-material culture

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What do you call something that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture?
What is -Symbol
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A shared rules of conduct that tell us how to act in specific situations
What is norm?
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The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards...
What is -Cultural relativism
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In this country they speak over 60 languages and have over 35 ethnic groups 

What is -South Sudan

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A group that rejects the standard components of culture of the larger society is called what?

What is counter-culture.

200
What name is given to shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable?
What is -Values
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The type of norm that has great moral significance

What is -Mores

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Judging other cultures using your own culture as the default?

What is -Ethnocentrism

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“I think the Scottish are gross for eating Haggis”- what is this statement an example of?
What is - ethnocentrism
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What term describes -believing ones own culture is superior to other cultures?
What is ethnocentrism
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What do you call a system of symbols both verbal and non-verbal that allows people to communicate with each other?
What is- Language
300

The type of norm that we follow but often are not written down. They help guide everyday behavior in society.

What is- Folkway

300

Assuming Western medicine is always superior to traditional healing practices is an example of?

What is -ethnocentrism

300
The difference between a society and a culture is...
What is -Society is a group of mutually interdependent people in a given location who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity. Culture is how they live and what they believe (their unique way of life)
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Name a cultural universal
What are: Funeral rites, Family relations, Smiles and humor, & deviance
400
A couch or robe would be an example of which of the 5 components of culture?

What are Physical Possessions. 

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The type of norm enforced by the state/authority
What is - Law
400
When culture changes due to interaction with another culture and adopting aspect of that culture it is called...
What is -Cultural Diffusion
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Social practices, rituals and festive events are habitual activities are examples of 

What are- cultural rituals

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Human activities, organizational patterns, characteristics, or traits that are common to all societies around the world.

What are Cultural Universals

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Expectations of how people will behave in different situations

What are norms.

500

A 'negative norm' or an extreme violation of a norm that people find offensive if caught doing it is known as ...

What is - a Taboo

500

The spreading of ideas from one culture to another

  • Spread through trade contacts

  • Spread through media…tv shows, movies… Hollywood

What is Cultural Diffusion?

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The Phoenicians created the first alphabet. As a powerful trading people on the Mediterranean from 900-700 BC they came in contact with many different cultures including the Greeks. When the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet and added vowels they were practicing what?

What is -Cultural diffusion

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