Definitions
The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable (good or bad)
Values
Normative Culture
Folkways, Mores, Taboos
The tendency to view one's culture as best and to judge others by those standards.
Ethnocentrism
Expectations or rules of behavior that develop to reflect and enforce values
Norms
Physical objects or man-made artifacts that people make and attach cultural meaning to constitute this in a society
Material Culture
Folkway - understood custom
More - customs that are strongly enforced and have a moral connection
Group rejects the major vales, norms, and practices of the larger society.
Counterculture
Language, beliefs, values, and material objects passed on from generation to generation.
Culture
Culture based on shared knowledge and beliefs
Cognitive Culture
Explain the difference between ideal norms and real norms.
Ideal - the expectations of society
Real - the realities of society
Groups within a culture that create their own social norms
Subcultures
When we are trying to understand a culture on its own terms
Cultural Relativism
Any object or thing that carries a specific meaning to a particular culture is considered part of their ____________.
Symbolic Culture
Lying, stealing, cheating, etc. could all be considering violations of what?
mores
Daniel has just disembarked from his American flight and entered into a Norwegian airport. He is unable to read the signs around him or ask anyone for help because he does not speak Norwegian. Daniel is experiencing...
Culture shock
Disorientation that people experience when they are in a new culture is
Culture Shock
Common features that are found in all human cultures.
Cultural Universals
In the United States, it is common for guests at weddings to throw rice at the newly married couple as they leave the ceremony. What is this an example of?
Folkway
What are the 4 results of cultural diffusion?