Soc/psych - Culture Terms

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Characteristics of Culture
(5)

Back 1

1. Learned
2. Shared
3. Varied across space & time
4. taken for granted
5. symbolic

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Elements of Culture
(5)

Back 2

1. Values
2. Beliefs
3. Norms
4. Language
5. Symbolic

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PROscriptive (v) PREscriptive
Norm

Back 3

PRO- BAD

PRE- GOOD

Front 4

Ethnomethodology

Back 4

study of human interaction by purposefully disrupting social norms

Front 5

language

Back 5

affects:
1. perceptions of reality
2. experiences

changing of labels (n-word -->AA)

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Values

Back 6

defines standards
morals
what ought to be...

Front 7

belief

Back 7

what ppl hold to be true

Front 8

culture from...
Structual-Functionalist P.O.V.
(2)

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it exists to:

1. bind ppl together
2. meets human needs

Front 9

Structual-Functionalist (v) Sociobiologist P.O.V. on Cultural Universals

Back 9

SF: DOES NOT EXIST

SB: does exist

Front 10

is a counterculture a subculture?

Back 10

YES

Front 11

Multi-culturalism
Conflict Theory...
Structural Functionalist...

Back 11

Conflict: hard to achieve

S Funct: hard to function

Front 12

Ethnocentrism
(v)
Cultural Relativism

Back 12

Ethno: judging another culture by one's own culture's standards

CR: judging another culture by THAT culture's OWN standards

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What causes cultural change?
(6)

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1. Societal Conditions [economy]
2. Innovation [technology]
3. Hegemony [excessive influence]
4. Imposition of culture
5. Diffusion [exposure; can happen btw subcultures]
6. Discovery

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impact of cultural change...
(2)

Back 14

1. promotes social change
2. questions belief systems

Front 15

cultural lag

Back 15

b/c some elements change faster, it causes conflicts