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26 Cards in this Set
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What is defined as a blue-print according to which the members of a society or a group go about their daily lives? |
Culture |
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What consists of common beliefs, customs, skills, traditions, and knowledge that members pass on to one another? |
Culture |
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Culture represents all objects of thought and experience, materials, and nonmaterial when what is used as the reference?
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Individuals communicating meaning and value to one another |
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When is socialization complete? |
Never |
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The things that people attach meaning to and use are considered what type of culture? |
material culture |
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What composes nonmaterial culture?
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The abstract terms that human beings create for the purposes of life |
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Who creates symbols? |
Humans |
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What is the term for something that has a certain meaning or value attached by the person or persons who use it? |
Symbol |
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What includes: symbols, sounds, events, and objects to which people attach meaning and significance? |
Culture |
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What 2 things are unique to humans? |
Symbols and spoken language |
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What's the name for the rules or expectations that govern or to which people orient their behavior? |
Norms |
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What ideas make things so important that humans are willing to fight, work, or die for them? |
Values |
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What are considered usual customs and conventions of everyday life, but do not contain a moral component? |
Folkways |
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How do folkways differ from values? |
Values have a moral component, but folkways do not |
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What are so significant to a society or community that when violated they are met with criticism, anger, punishment, or institutionalization? |
Mores |
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What are mores? |
Ethically significant norms that members of a community feel very strongly about when violated |
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What are cultural universals? |
Basic elements essential to individual and collective survival found in all cultures |
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What is the term expresses the variety of all things humans have devised to met their needs? |
Cultural variability |
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What is the word for the tendency to judge other cultures by one's own standards? |
Ethnocentrism |
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What term defines the attitude that one's own cultural values are the only good and true values? |
Ethnocentrism |
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What is it called when social scientists attempt to be objective in their observations by not imposing their own meaning on observed events, or by focusing only on the reason why an element exists? |
Cultural relativism |
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What is the term for unique cultures and cultural organizations within a larger culture? |
Subcultures |
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The amish are an example of what kind of culture? |
Subculture |
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What pose a threat to a culture's existence with its differing values, beliefs, and ways of life? |
Countercultures |
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What characterizes countercultures? |
Distinctive values and norms, as well as unconventional behavior |
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Cults, the Ku Klux Klan, as well as other white supremacist groups, are examples of what? |
Countercultures |
