Cultural Variation
Arts & Leisure, Basic Needs, Beliefs, Education...
What are cultural universals?
Physical objects and the rules that are used for those objects.
What is material culture?
Norms that are strictly enforced.
What is a more?
Tendency to view one's own culture as superior.
What is ethnocentrism?
Hippies, goths, bikers, and skaters.
What are subcultures?
Groups of a population whos values intend to challenge values of a society.
What is counter culture?
Shared meaning- could be a sound, gesture, image, or handshake.
What is a symbol?
Formal definition/punishment for violating mores.
What is a law?
Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards.
What is cultural relativism?
Buildings, dresses, and cars.
What is material culture?
Part a population that does not share the same cultural characteristics.
Shared beliefs about what is right and wrong.
What is value?
Norms that lack moral significant
What is a folkway?
Process by which a society takes on the characteristics of a fast food restaurant.
What is McDonaldization?
Eating ice cream with a spoon.
What is a folkway?
Practices, beliefs, and and values are most desirable, and are consciously taught to children.
What is ideal culture?
Enforces cultural values.
What is a norm?
Expression of disapproval for breaking a norm.
What is a negative sanction?
When the spreading of traits leads to cultures becoming more similar.
What is cultural leveling?
Organized crime, anarchists, hippie movement, and feminist movement.
What is counter culture?
Cultural traits such as dress and music that are a part of today's changeable media-influenced western societies.
What is popular culture?
Gap of time between the development of technology and society's understanding of how to implement it.
What is cultural lag?
Dishonesty, fraud, murder, rape.
What are mores?
The spread of cultural traits, ideas, and beliefs from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Cannibalism.
What is a taboo?