Vocab
Theories
Elements of Culture
Crimes agaisnt humanity
Types of culture
100
A belief that another culture is superior to your own
What is Xenocentrism
100
Viewing a society as a system in which all parts work together
What is Functionalism?
100
The standards society would like to embrace
What is Ideal culture
100
Kicking out a subordinate group
What is Expulsion?
100
Cultural experiences that exists in mainstream society
What is Pop-Culture
200
Using your own culture to judge other cultures
What is Ethnocentrism?
200
Viewing social structure as inherently unequal
What is Conflict Theory?
200
Gestures or objects that have meanings attached to them
What are Symbols?
200
Deliberate annihilation of a group
What is Genocide?
200
A smaller cultural group within a larger one
What is Sub-Culture
300
Imposition of one's culture to another culture
What is Cultural Imperialism?
300
View cultures as being created and maintained by the ways individuals interpret each others actions
What is Interactionism?
300
Norms that embody the moral views of a group
What is Mores?
300
Seperation of groups
What is Segregation?
300
Golfing, Operas, and Poetry are examples of this
What is High Culture
400
Assessing a culture by its own standard
What is Cultural Relativism?
400
The dominant group displace their aggression on the subordinate group
What is Scapegoat Theory?
400
Understanding the world based in their form of languange
What is Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
400
The prejudicial treatment of different categories of people
What is Discrimination?
400
A way of life opposing the norms
What is Counter Culture?
500
Involves the promotion of a group's status, such as occurs with white privilege.
What is Instituional Discrimination?