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25 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
The sum of practices, languages, symbols, beliefs, values, and material objects that people create to deal with real life problems |
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High culture |
Culture consumed mainly by upper class e.x opera |
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Popular Culture |
Culture consumed by all classes |
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Society |
A number of people who interact usually in a defined territory and share a culture |
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Abstraction |
The human capacity to create general ideas or ways of thinking that are not linked to particular instances |
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Symbols |
Anything that comes in a particular meaning including components if language mathematical notion and signs |
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Cooperation |
A human capacity to create a complex social life by sharing and working together |
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Norms |
Generally accepted ways of doing things |
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Values |
Ideas about what is right and wrong, good/bad, beautiful/ ugly |
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Folk way |
The least important type or norm- a norm that evokes the least severe punishment when violated |
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A core norm that most people believe is essential for the survival of the group |
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Taboo |
The strongest type of norm. When someone violates a taboo it causes revulsion and the punishment is severe |
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Production |
The human capacity to make and use tools. It improves our ability to take what we want from nature. |
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Material Culture |
The tools and techniques that enable people to accomplish tasks |
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Language |
A syst of symbols strung together to communicate thought |
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Sapir-Whorf Thesis |
The thesis that holds that we experience certain things in our environment and form concepts about those things. We then develop language to express our concepts. Finally language itself influences how wee see the world (our experience) |
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Ethnocentrism |
The tendency to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of your own culture |
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Multiculturalism |
Policy that reflects Canada's ethnic and radical diversity in the past and enhances Canada's ethnic and radical diversity today |
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Cultural Relativism |
The belief that all cultures have the same value |
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Rights Revolution |
The process by which socially excluded groups have struggled yo win equal rights under the law |
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Rites of passage |
Cultural ceremonies that mark the transition from one stage of life to another |
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Post Modernism |
Culture characterized by an electic mix of cultural elements from different times and places, the erosion of authority and the decline of concensus and core values |
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Rationalization |
The application of the most efficient means to achieve goals and the unintended consequences of doing so |
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Consumerism |
The tendency to define ourselves in terms of the goods and services we purchase |
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Counterculture |
Subversive subcultures that oppose domination values and seek to replace them |
