Culture & Perspectives
Culture serves as a system for a group to meet their basic needs
What is Functionalism?
Rules that define behavior
What are Norms?
Cultural diversity resulting from behavioral differences between groups based upon age, religion, & so much more
What are social categories?
Innate (unlearned) patterns of behavior
What are instincts, drives, reflexes?
Factor that can cause a change in social norms by way of spreading a cultural element from one culture to another
What is Diffusion?
According to the Conflict Perspective, this is the cultural beliefs & practices of those in power
What is the dominant ideology?
A factor of change in social norms by way of better understanding of something already known
What is Discovery?
Promotes cultural diversity by making cultural patterns widespread
What is Pop Culture?
The collection of knowledge, customs, values, language, & objects shared by a group & passed down from generation to generation
What is culture?
Becomes an important source for the creation of laws
What are Mores?
Culture helps maintain the privileges & positions of powerful groups in society by reinforcing their dominant ideology
What is the Conflict Perspective?
Type of norm that lacks moral significance; not considered vital to group welfare
What is a Folkway?
Promotes cultural diversity through the practice of certain cultural aspects that differ from the dominant culture, however, still maintain connection to the dominant culture
What are Subcultures?
These do not control human social behavior because culture is able to channel them
What are drives & reflexes?
Type of sanction provided for breaking a More or a Law
What is a Formal Sanction?
According to Functionalism, this determines how basic needs are met
What are values?
Type of norm that is formally defined & enforced by officials
What is a Law?
Promotes cultural diversity as these types of cultures might differ in cultural practices due to tradition & environmental factors
What are Folk Cultures?
A response to cultural diversity where a person will judge others based upon their own cultural standards
What is Ethnocentrism?
Giving a dirty look to a person who cut me off on the highway
What is an Informal Sanction?
Culture is transmitted & perpetuated through social interaction
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Type of norm that has moral significance & is considered vital to the well-being of a society
What is a More?
Creates cultural diversity as this type of culture deliberately opposes certain beliefs of the dominant culture
What are Countercultures?
The differences in expression of a universal cultural trait
What are Cultural Particulars?