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36 Cards in this Set
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culture |
defines way of life for a group, gives sense of belonging beliefs, values, laws, art, dress, etc |
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material culture |
objects that are significant because of the meaning they are given art, tools, toys, literature, etc |
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nonmaterial culture |
laws, customs, ideas, beliefs |
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ethnocentrism |
seeing things from only your groups point of view can lead to narrow minded ideas about worth of diverse cultures |
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cultural relativism |
it is hard to understand why people behave the way they do without knowing cultural context |
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culture shock |
when someone enters a new/quickly changed cultural situation feels disoriented |
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culture is shared (characteristics of culture) |
collectively experienced difficult to see in America sometimes, but it still exists |
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culture is learned (characteristics of culture) |
directly by parents and teachers indirectly by observation |
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culture is taken advantage of (characteristic of culture) |
rarely questioned by members of that society recognizable if you suddenly stop practicing your culture |
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culture is symbolic (char. of culture) |
things/behaviors people give meaning to can produce social conflict when groups define them differently |
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culture varies across time and place (char. of culture) |
emerges as mix of past and present |
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culture is concrete and abstract |
you can observe objects and practices way of thinking, feeling behaving |
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sapir-whorf hypothesis |
language determines what people think because lang. forces people to view world in certain terms if this is true different people have different views of reality |
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norms |
expectations for how to behave in a given situation |
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william graham |
identified folkways and mores |
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folkways |
general standards, loosely defined/followed |
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mores |
strict norms controlling moral/ethical behavior upheld by laws |
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social sanctions |
mechanism of social control enforcing folkways, norms, and mores |
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taboos |
behaviors that bring the most serious sanction ie: islamic woman unveiled in america is taboo but sanction is whipping, banishment etc |
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ethnomethodology |
you can discover social order by disrupting it ie: college kids pretending to be boarders in their own home |
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beliefs |
shared ideas about what is true basis for norms/values guide people through life although logically impossible |
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values |
abstract standards in society, morals |
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dominant culture |
culture of most powerful group in society doesnt need to be culture of majority |
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subcultures |
differ from dominant can share some elements with dominant ie: amish shop at walmart |
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countercultures |
created as reaction against dominant values |
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global culture |
diffusion of single culture throughout world |
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cultural hegemony |
persuasive/excessive influence of one culture on society |
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elite culture |
highly valued, shared by a select few |
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digital divide |
persistence of inequality in peoples access to electronic info |
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content analysis of media |
shows distinct pattern of how race gender and class are depicted in media |
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reflection hypothesis |
mass media reflects values of general population reverse of this hyp. can be true |
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conflict theorists |
cultural products reflect values/interests of most powerful groups in society culture is controlled by economic monopolies |
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cultural capital |
ie: member of elite class display cultural lifestyle and signals their importance to others |
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symbolic interaction theory |
interprets social behavior by using culture as framework through which it is understood culture is produced through social relationships |
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cultural studies |
sees culture as fragmented and unpredictable |
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classical theorists |
study unifying features of culture |
