Culture Basics
Symbols and Language
Norms and Laws
Values and Change
Bigger Questions
100
THIS consists of knowledge, language, values, customs, and physical objects.
What is culture?
100
THESE are some of the most common ways that culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
What are symbols?
100
Norms, values, beliefs, and material objects are essential _______________ of culture.
What are components?
100
More general than norms, THESE are broad ideas about what is good and desirable for society.
What are values?
100
Culture is made up of THESE essential components.
What are knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects?
200
Cultural habits are passed on between THESE.
What are generations?
200
One of the most influential symbols a culture uses, which frees us from time and place.
What is language?
200
Folkways, mores, and laws are the three basic types of THESE.
What are norms?
200
THESE are a society’s common practices for which values form the basis.
What are norms?
200
THESE are how conformity to norms are learned and accepted, and can have varying degrees of seriousness.
What are sanctions?
300
THESE are things about people we are all born with that are filtered through culture.
What are physical traits/instincts/drives?
300
Learning a new language can be a great way to embrace a new one of THESE.
What is culture?
300
THESE have no moral significance and therefore are met with little punishment when they are broken.
What are folkways?
300
THESE are the type of objects that make up the physical parts of a culture, and have no meaning apart from the meaning assigned to them.
What are Material Objects?
300
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400
Society is different from culture because culture is a way of life, and society is one of THESE.
What is a group of people?
400
In the IT Crowd video, SPORTS was one of THESE in relation to what it said about “masculinity.”
What is a symbol?
400
THESE are formally defined and result in punishment by figures of authority if they are broken.
What are laws?
400
Culture does THIS for three reasons: discovery, invention, or diffusion.
What is change?
400
THIS is useful in that it makes people feel proud of their group, but dangerous because it can be too rigid and harm others.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Culture is affected by language because, while culture ROOTS people in THESE, language frees people from them.
What are time and place?
500
The idea that the same hand signal which indicates “Okay,” in our culture could be interpreted as an insult in another culture occurs because symbols are not THIS.
What is universal?
500
THESE have moral significance and are considered vital to the well-being of society. They include taboos.
What are mores?
500
THIS is the borrowing of aspects from one culture by another culture.
What is diffusion?
500
The meaning of objects in material culture is often influenced by meanings gained from THIS kind of culture.
What is non-material culture?