vocab 1
Values, beliefs, systems of language, communication, and practices shared by people or Material objects.
culture
what type of norm is the least bad if you break
folkway
something all cultures have in common
cultural universal
Who wrote the doctrine of positivism
Auguste Comte
if the sapir worf hypothesis is correct and something is important we have a lot of ___ that talks about it
words
A society is any group that occupies a roughly defined region and shares a culture
What is society
what is a norm that is so bad that the government has taken formal action about
law
what's a cultural variation
something unique about a culture
Who translated Auguste Comte's book
Harriet Martineau
a subculture that goes against the culture or norms consciously and deliberately
counterculture
inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture by members of another culture
cultural appropriation
what is the worst kind of more norm
taboo
what is a method most societies use for communication
a language
Who made the theory of social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
unlearned inherited patterns of behavior passed on to us by our genes
instincts
hypothesis of linguistic relativity definition
(Sapir Whorf hypothesis)
if something is important to our culture we will have many words to describe it
what type od norm carries moral significance and violators suffer strong disapproval
More
thinking your race/ethnicity/group is better than all others
ethnocentrism
Whose suicide research concluded that white men with few social connections are statistically more susceptible
Émile Durkheim
a belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards.
cultural relativism
name an example of a social category
Christians, men, freshmen, etc.
what is the result of breaking a norm called
a sanction
name an example of a society subculture
teacher decides if right
who coined the term "survival of the fittest"
Herbert Spencer
what is the tendency to view ones culture as superior to all others
ethnocentrism