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Formations
Elements of Culture
Violating Norms
Cultural Diversity
Cultural Change
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The entire way of life of a group of people that acts as a lens through which we view the world.

What is culture?

100
These are non-verbal components of language.
What are gestures?
100
When someone violates a social norm, he/she is likely to receive this, and it usually will reflect the severity of the violation.
What is a social sanction?
100
These groups arise as a reaction against the values and norms of the dominant culture.
What are countercultures?
100
When society and culture remain behind where they could be, despite technological advances, it is known as this.
What is culture lag?
200
By examining buildings, tools, and clothing, for example, sociologists consider this type of culture.
What is material culture?
200
These are the abstract standards that represent a society's ideal principles.
What are values?
200
Norms that are written or formally communicated are known as these.
What are explicit norms?
200
This term refers to cultures of the groups whose values and norms are different from those of the dominant culture.
What is subculture?
200
This is the idea that some resources, such as wealth or fame or education, fit with the values of the elite culture and give advantage to certain social groups.
What is cultural capital?
300
Ideas such as beliefs and values are examples of this kind of culture.
What is nonmaterial culture?
300
These are strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior, such as religious doctrine.
What are mores?
300
These are the strictest norms in society, and violation of them often brings most serious sanctions
What are taboos?
300
This includes the beliefs, practices and objects that are part of everyday life and is usually communicated by mass media.
What is popular culture?
300
This can be a source of cultural change, either through globalization or the influence of a subculture.
What is cultural diffusion?
400
The process by which culture is learned is known as this.
What is socialization?
400
Folkways, mores, and laws are all examples of these.
What are norms?
400

Breaking these laws could get you put in jail

What are laws?

400
In order to avoid being ethnocentric, or seeing the world only from one’s own cultural perspective, sociologists attempt to consider the perspectives of many groups, which is known as this.
What is multiculturalism?
400
The pervasive and excessive influence of one culture throughout society is known as this.
What is cultural hegemony?
500

The standards society would like to embrace and live up to

Ideal culture

500

The result of research anthropologists conducted on the impact of language on the human mind

What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?

500

Culture that challenges the status quo and whose values are at odds with the mainstream.

What is counterculture?