Miscellaneous Questions
both disciplines are interested in human behavior
psychology and sociology
______ are a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society.
Values
______ are how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as good, right, and important
Norms
the use of both English and Spanish.
bi-lingual
______ refers to a group of people who live in a definable community.
society
a sociologist studying how a couple gets to the point of their first kiss on a date might focus her research on ____
cultural norms of dating
______ are the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.
Beliefs
“Shake hands when you meet him." or "Don't talk with your mouth full." are examples of _____.
informal norms
______ is the principal method of human communication.
Language
______ are interactive technologies that allow the creation or sharing/exchange of information, ideas, interests.
Social media
The American flag is a material object that is an example of a _____
symbol
______ portray an ideal culture
Values
_____ used in social science to breach or violate common, taken-for-granted understandings and practices of everyday life to better understand it.
Breaching experiments
______ refers to the correct use of the words to express specific thoughts.
Semantics
______ demonstrates the strongest dependence on the environment of the various types of preindustrial societies.
Hunter-gatherer societies
Xenocentrism
valuing your culture at the exclusion of other cultures
People ______ certain behaviors by giving their support
sanction
______ are norms that embody the moral views and principles of a group.
Mores (mor-ays)
______ have identified five basic components (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) found across languages.
Linguists
In 1782, ______ and ______ created a steam engine that could do the work of twelve horses by itself.
James Watt and Matthew Boulton
George Herbert Mead
studied the self
Values are not ______
static
______ are norms without any moral underpinnings.
folkways
people experience their world through their language, and that they therefore understand their world through the culture embedding of it
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Otherwise skeptical or hesitant villagers are more easily convinced of the value of the solar project when they realize that the “solar engineers” are their ______
local grandmothers.