Sociocultural - Week 2
Is socially transmitted knowledge and behaviour shared by some group of people.
The part people play as members of a social group. According to the part, your behaviour changes to meet the expectations of both yourself and others.
Supernatural forces vs. supernatural beings
What are powerful forces that have no personality of their own? (Ex. luck)
People who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations.
What is a speech community?
A meme is an example of ...
The way we relate to and classify objects or people around us, which ultimately influences our behaviour.
What is classification of reality?
Total institutions such as prisons, convents, and boarding schools.
What is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life?
Prescribed behaviours in which there is no empirical connection between the means (e.g., tapping home plate three times) and the desired end (e.g., getting a base hit).
What are rituals?
A commonly understood set of references, experiences, and/or interactions that provide a foundation for strong communication. It includes the terms, vocabulary, and jargon that are used by a social group or in a particular social setting.
What is a shared language?
A ritualized social practice which contributes to the maintenance of structural inequality.
What are norms, values, collective understanding, classification of reality, and world views?
Every person is placed in a unique position in society. Depending on the social structures of power, some individuals may experience double the discrimination and marginalization due to ...
What is intersectionality?
Four ways to manage relations with supernatural forces/uncertainty.
What are routines, rituals, taboos and fetishes?
Define kinesics. Provide and define one of 5 types.
What are all forms of body language? Emblems, regulators, illustrators, affect displays and adaptors
The distinction between standard vs. non-standard language?
What is one of many language variants that has been given special prestige in the community because it is spoken by the people who have the greatest amount of prestige, power, and wealth? What are vernaculars that often linked to groups of individuals with the least amount of power?