Sociology Chapter 3

Front 1

Culture

Back 1

beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects used by a people.

Front 2

Culture Shock

Back 2

psychological (sometimes physiological) trauma from being in an alien culture.

Front 3

5 Basic Components of Culture

Back 3

Symbols, Language, Values, Norms, Material objects.

Front 4

Symbols

Back 4

Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture.

Front 5

Language

Back 5

a system of symbols that has standardized meaning.

Front 6

Values

Back 6

the standards by which people judge things.

Front 7

Norms

Back 7

The rules that guide behavior.

Front 8

Material Objects

Back 8

Tools used by a culture.

Front 9

Mores

Back 9

Norms that carry great social significance

Front 10

Folkways

Back 10

Norms that have little social significance.

Front 11

Social Control

Back 11

the attempts by a society to create conformity.

Front 12

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Back 12

you can only know the world in terms of your language

Front 13

Amish

Back 13

typically farmers who have moved away from the technology of modern society.

Front 14

Subcultures

Back 14

a group of people that are a part of a larger group.

Front 15

Counter Cultures

Back 15

groups of people or cultural patterns that are against the dominant culture.

Front 16

Culture Lag

Back 16

the idea that some parts of a culture change more quickly than other parts of culture.

Front 17

Invention

Back 17

when something brand new is created

Front 18

Discovery

Back 18

finding something that is already in existence and using it.

Front 19

Diffusion

Back 19

The spreading of one culture to another.

Front 20

Ethnocentrism

Back 20

to believe ones culture is greater than another.

Front 21

Cultural Relativism

Back 21

the practice of judging other cultures by their own standards.

Front 22

4 Ways of looking at culture

Back 22

Structural Functional Paradigm, Social Conflict, Cultural Ecology, Sociobiology

Front 23

Cultural Ecology

Back 23

the idea that there is a relation between physical environment and culture.

Front 24

Sociobiology

Back 24

tries to explain culture as a product of genetics of biology.