The Basis of Culture
Innate patterns of behavior is?
Instincts
A thing that represents something else is a?
Symbol
Norms are
Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Ideas about the nature of reality is
Beliefs
Judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards is
Ethnocentrism
Drive is?
The impulse to reduce discomfort.
Our idea of reality depends largely upon language is the
Hypothesis of linguistic relativity
Norms that lack moral significance are
Folkways
Ideal Culture is
cultural guideline that group members claim to accept
Social Categories is
grouping of persons who share a social characteristic
The automatic reaction to physical stimulus is?
Reflex
When something is important to a society, its language will what?
Have many words to describe it
Sanctions imposed by persons given special authority are
Formal sanctions
Ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence people's behavior is
Nonmaterial Culture
The ways in which a culture expresses universal traits is
Cultural Particulars
A specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture is?
Society
What can exposure to another language or to new words do for a person?
Alter their perception of the world
Values are
broad ideas about what is desirable shared by people in a society.
Actual behavior patterns of members of a group
Real Culture
Subculture is
a group that is part of the dominant culture but differs from it in some aspects.
Knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society is?
Culture
Symbol
A thing that stands for something else.
A rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment.
Taboo
The tangible objects of a culture is
Material Culture
What are the three reasons culture changes?
Discovery, Invention, and Diffusion