Definitions 1
These are the beliefs, values, norms, heritage, traditions, and worldview that a group of people share.
What is culture?
These are rules that cover customary ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving within a society but lack moral overtones if not followed.
What are folkways?
A group that is part of the dominant culture but differs from it in some important respects sharing beliefs, lore, jargon, and interests that are unique to them and which they gather to celebrate.
What is a subculture?
These are ideas about the nature of reality that members of a society share.
What are beliefs?
The human need to socialize with other members of our species is an example of this concept.
What is an example of an impulse or drive?
A group of people who share the same culture, institutions and heritage and inhabit the same territory.
What is a society?
Norms that are formally codified and enforced by the figures of authority in a society and which carry clearly defined punishments for those that transgress them.
What is a law?
Groups that share a social characteristic such as age, gender, or religion that can be used to anticipate commonalities with other members of a society.
What are social categories?
These are the beliefs that members of a society have about the objects that surround them, the objects they want to produce or acquire, and the meaning of the interactions they have with each other.
What is nonmaterial culture?
Social Symbols such as traffic lights, flags, police badges, diplomas, art, etc. are all good examples of this concept.
What are some examples of material culture?
This field focuses on exploring how environment, culture, and human biology interact.
What is Sociobiology?
These are norms of great moral significance and substantial value for society, and transgressing them will offend and probably trigger retaliation from others.
What are mores?
A group that coexists within a dominant culture but whose members intentionally collaborate to transgress and challenge the values and norms of the majority.
What is a counterculture?
These are the actual facts of how a society operates regardless of their aspirations or values.
What is real culture?
The idea that consumption of certain foods which are popular in other cultures (such as dog, insects, or dolphins) but which are taboo in ours should be declared illegal is an example of this concept.
What is an example of ethnocentrism?
These are words or figures that stand or represent shared meanings for the people in a culture.
What are social symbols?
These are broad ideas that a society has deemed desirable, but upon which individuals have much leeway to interpret how to best fulfill them.
What are values?
These are traits (norms, ceremonies, objects, etc.) that naturally arise in all societies, regardless of how removed they are from one another.
What are cultural universals?
The aspirational shape that members of a society agree they wish their culture would achieve and towards which members of the society constantly work to approach.
What is ideal culture?
Rebuking a person either through comments, gestures, or by avoiding him or her after they picked their nose in public is an example of this concept.
What is an example of an informal sanction?
This theory posits that language is not only our means for sharing ideas, but also a key determinant of how we view and interpret the world.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
These are the set of rewards and punishments that society uses to pressure its members into following their norms.
What are social sanctions?
The tendency to consider one's cultural beliefs as naturally superior to those of others and the tendency to judge cultural others based on one's own cultural notions.
What is ethnocentrism?
These consist of the concrete, tangible objects within a culture that have no meaning other than that which the people give them.
What is material culture?
Pointing out how the San people tend to be smaller in size and less muscular than other human groups and how their use of smaller hunting tools dipped in venom may be related to their physical appearance is a good example of this concept.
What is an example of sociobiology?