Chapter 2

Front 1

Mores

Back 1

Strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences

Hint 1

Moral norms

Front 2

Non material culture

Back 2

A component of culture that consists of the abstract or intangible human creation of society that influences people's behavior

Hint 2

Language, beliefs, values, family patterns, and social systems

Front 3

Symbolic interactionist perspective

Back 3

Highlights how people maintain and change culture through their interactions with others. People create maintain and modify culture as they go about their everyday lives

Hint 3

Micro level analysis

Front 4

Conflict perspective

Back 4

Certain groups me use culture to maintain their privilege and exclude others from society's benefits

Front 5

Sapir Whorf hypothesis

Back 5

Language shapes the view of reality of its speakers. Language not only expresses thoughts and perceptions but also influences our perception of reality

Hint 5

Created by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf.

Front 6

Cultural relativism

Back 6

The belief that behaviors and customs of any culture must be viewed in analyzed by the culture's own standards

Hint 6

Alternative to ethnocentrism

Front 7

Functionalist perspective

Back 7

Assumes that a common language and shared values help produce consensus and harmony

Front 8

Subculture

Back 8

I can agree with people who share distinguishing attributes beliefs and values and or norms that set them apart in some significant manner from dominant culture

Front 9

Technology

Back 9

Knowledge, techniques, and tools that make it possible for people to transform resources into visible form and the knowledge and skills required to use them after they are developed

Front 10

Values

Back 10

Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture

Front 11

High culture

Back 11

Classical music, opera, ballet, live theater and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences

Front 12

Counter culture

Back 12

A group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles

Hint 12

Hippies

Front 13

Cultural diversity

Back 13

Wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations

Homeogeneous societies: common culture (Sweden)

Heterogeneous societies: dis-similar (USA)

Front 14

Drive

Back 14

Unlearned biologically determined impulses common to all members of the species that satisfy needs

Hint 14

sleep, food, water, sex

Front 15

Culture

Back 15

The knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human society or group

Front 16

Material culture

Back 16

A component of culture that consist of physical or tangible creations that members of society make, use, or share

Hint 16

Begin as raw materials such as ore, trees, and oil

Front 17

culture shock

Back 17

The disorientation people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own and believe they cannot depend on their own taken for granted assumptions about life

Front 18

Reflex

Back 18

Unlearned biologically determined involuntary responses to some physical stimuli

Hint 18

Sneeze

Front 19

Taboos

Back 19

Mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable

Hint 19

Incest

Front 20

Language

Back 20

A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another

Hint 20

Both verbal and nonverbal

Front 21

Value contradictions

Back 21

Values that conflict with one another

Hint 21

Humanitarian values (welfare) conflict with values emphasizing hard work

Front 22

cultural lag

Back 22

A gap between the technical development of the society and its moral and legal institutions

Front 23

Popular culture

Back 23

Activities products and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working class

Front 24

Beliefs

Back 24

The mental acceptance or conviction that certain things are true and real

Front 25

Cultural universals

Back 25

Customs and practices that occur across all societies. Idea by George Murdock there are more than 70 of these including body adornment, hairstyles,dancing and games

Front 26

Cultural imperialism

Back 26

Extensive infusion of one nation's culture into another nation

Hint 26

USA and the English language

Front 27

Norms

Back 27

Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct

prescriptive=acceptable
proscriptive=unacceptable

Front 28

Laws

Back 28

Formal standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced by formal sanctions.

Civil law deals with person or group dispute

Criminal law deals with public safety and well being

Front 29

Symbol

Back 29

Anything that meaningfully represents something else culture cannot exist without symbols

Front 30

Ethnocentrism

Back 30

The practice of judging all other cultures by one's own culture assumption your way is the best way

Front 31

Folkways

Back 31

Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequence within a particular culture

Hint 31

Using deodorant and brushing your teeth

Front 32

Sanction

Back 32

Rewards for appropriate behavior or penalties for inappropriate behavior