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21 Cards in this Set
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Benefits, values, behaviors & materials, obj shared by human groups or society |
Culture |
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Physical object people create & use |
Material Culture |
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Abstract human creations tht include benefits, values, ideas, language. |
Non-material Culture |
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Represents something else w/ shared meaning (gestures, sounds) |
Symbols |
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occurs when a person uses his/her own culture to judge another culture |
Ethnocentrism |
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Consists of a deliberate effort to appreciate a groups way of life in it's own context, without prejudice |
Cultural Relativism |
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Subset of dominant culture tht has distinct values, beliefs and norms |
Subcultures |
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groups rejects the major values, norms and practices of larger society |
Counterculture |
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org. written or spoken symbols into a standardized system |
Language |
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Shared beliefs/ standards about rights/ wrongs or good / bad |
Values |
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Shared rules of conducts tht tell people now to act |
Norms |
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provide traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people. |
Folkways |
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norms tht represents a community's most important values |
Mores |
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reward or punishment used o enforce conformity to norms |
Sanctions (positive / negative)(formal/ informal) |
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Person encounters a culture foreign to his/ her own & has an emotional response to the diff b/w the culture |
Culture shock |
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List the cultures they are different from one another |
-Geographic -Isolation -Unwillingness to Change -Innovation |
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Explain the reasons why cultures are different from one another |
-Geographic: -Isolation: -Unwillingness to change: -Innovation: |
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List and explain the basic components of culture |
-Tech: physical obj. rules for using them -Symbols: represent something else w/ shared meanings -Language: organization written / spoken symbols into a standardization system -Values: -Norms: |
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Difference between a folkways and a more |
Both are deviations f/m norms, but folkways pertains to informal norms where as mores break laws and is punishable through the govt. |
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why is it important to approach other cultures with the approach of cultural relativism and not ethnocentrism? |
B/c ethnocentrism breed prejudice and misunderstanding which violates the support objectivity of sociology |
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Describe 2 of the values held by Americans |
-Competitions : challenges and being better than one another -Equality: value everyone having the same rights and equal opportunities |
