Non-materially Universal
Objects, words, or actions that represent something.
Symbols
Shared ideas of how people should behave that can be informal or enforced by law.
Norms
The sick feeling someone gets when they experience how people in different cultures live.
Culture shock
The community of people living in a region with shared customs, laws, and organizations.
Society
Refers to the international movement of people across borders, either voluntary or involuntary.
Global Migration
The belief in and worship of a superhuman power or powers and the system of faith where worship occurs.
Religion
The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
Folkways
What are the three responses of someone experiencing and processing culture shock?
Ethnocentrism, Xenocentrism, and Cultural-Relativism
People with shared attributes, often physical ones, who identify with one another. (Hint: Its usually based on race.)
Ethnic Group
Often refers to including people from different social and ethnic backgrounds, races, genders, religious beliefs, etc.
Diversity
A culture’s core beliefs about right vs. wrong.
Values and Beliefs
Not exceeding the speed limit on roadways would be an example of what kind of norm?
Laws
Acknowledging your judgments of cultures are based on where/when you live.
Cultural-Relativism
Loyalty in your country that sometimes leads to the belief that your country and its interests are more important than any other country.
Nationalism
The act of leaving your country with the intent to settle elsewhere.
Emigration
Elements, patterns, traits, or institutions common to all human cultures worldwide.
Cultural Universals
Moral norms, often linked to religion, that makes those who break them seem immoral.
Mores
Immersing or centering yourself in an alien culture and preferring it more than your own.
Xenocentrism
The use of social pressure by authority figures to influence the actions, beliefs, and movements of others.
Social Control
A term that refers to the interconnectedness of the world; has led to businesses operating on an international level.
Globalization
Nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture.
Nonmaterial Culture
Negative norms, or things that people find offensive or socially unacceptable.
Taboos
Judging another culture, often negatively, by comparing it to your own.
Ethnocentrism
The United States has two analogies to describe how cultures blend together. What are these theories called?
The spread of cultural ideas, objects, inventions, and practices from place to place.
Diffusion