UCSP GR

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• Sanctions are positive or negative reactions to the ways that people follow or disobey norms, including __________ for conformity and punishments for norm violators. 

REWARDS

2

• Formal ___________ codes are necessary to manage relationships in interdependent, self-interested, contractual societies.

LEGAL

3

• Artifacts are the things, or aspects of ____________ culture derive from a culture's values and norms.

MATERIAL 

4

• Ethnocentrism is a tendency to evaluate and _________ the customs and traditions of others according to one’s own cultural tastes, beliefs, and standards

JUDGE

5

Cultural assimilation is the taking __________ of one’s culture and making it your own.

ELEMENTS

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Values determine for us what is ___________ in our life

DESIRABLE

2

Norms are established standards of ______________ maintained by a society.

BEHAVIOR

3

According to the informal norms of culture of the mountainous Asian kingdom of Bhutan, people greet each other by extending their ____________ and hands

TONGUES

4

Folkways are norms governing everyday behavior whose violation might cause a dirty look, __________ eyes, or disapproving comment

ROLLED

5

Each society demands ___________ to its mores.

OBEDIENCE

Enumeration

1

Types of norms

Folkways

Mores

Taboo

Laws

2

2 examples of Taboo (based on our ppt)

Incest

Cannibalism

Pedophilia

3

positive sanctions (based on our ppt)

salary bonus

medal

diploma

testimonial dinner

4

2 examples of institution

Family

Religion

Economy

Education

Government

5

U.S. Values made by sociologists Robin Williams

Give at least 3 examples

nAchievement and success

nIndividualism

nActivity and work

Efficiency and practicality

Material comfort

Freedom

Democracy

Equality

Identification

1

• Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct.

NORMS

2

• A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another.

LANGUAGE

3

• Influence people's behavior and serve as criteria for evaluation the actions of others.

VALUES

4

• Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture.

VALUES

5

• Anything that meaningfully represents something else.

SYMBOLS

Identification

1

The total, generally organized way of life, including values, norms, institutions, and artifacts, that is passed on from generation to generation by learning alone.

CULTURE

2

The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

CULTURAL SHOCK/CULTURE SHOCK

3

On the positive side, it creates in-group loyalty.

ETHNOCENTRISM

4

The structures of a society within which values and norms are transmitted.

INSTITUTIONS

5

These are positive or negative reactions to the ways that people follow or disobey norms, including rewards for conformity and punishments for norm violators.

SANCTIONS