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17 Cards in this Set
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What is culture? |
A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices; the sum total of social categories and concepts we embrace in addition to beliefs, behaviors (except instinctual ones), and practices; that which is not the natural environment around us. |
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What is ethnocentrism? |
The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own. |
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Who is Matthew Arnold? |
He redefined culture as the pursuit of perfection and broad knowledge of the world in contrast to narrow self-centeredness and material gain. |
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What is nonmaterial culture? |
Values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms. |
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What is material culture? |
Everything that is a part of our constructed, physical environment, including technology. |
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What is ideology? |
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect. |
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What is cultural relativism? |
Taking into account the difference across cultures without passing judgment or assigning value. |
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What are cultural scripts? |
Modes of behavior and understanding that are not universal or natural. |
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What is subculture? |
The distinct cultural values and behavioral patterns of a particular group in society; a group united by sets of concepts, values, symbols, and shared meaning specific to the members of that group distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society. |
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What are values? |
Moral beliefs. |
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What are norms? |
How values tell us to behave. |
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What is socialization? |
The process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society. |
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What is reflection theory? |
The idea that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere, a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structures of our society is projected. |
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What is media? |
Any formats or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information. |
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What is hegemony? |
A condition by which a dominant group uses its power to elicit the voluntary "consent" of the masses. |
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What is consumerism? |
The steady acquisition of material possessions, often with the belief that happiness and fulfillment can thus be achieved. |
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What is culture jamming? |
The act of turning media against themselves. |
