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27 Cards in this Set
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What culture is, and is not
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Culture- all the artificats of people, both material and non material. Is is NOT society!
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The role of language and values in a culture
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Language- cultural transmission, Sapir Whort Hypothesis, non verbal language
Values- support beliefs, the core American values are very inconsistant |
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What is meant by interdependence?
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-culture integration & culture lag dependent on each other
culture integration- change in one part of culture may lead to other parts being changed ex. computers change language culture lag-non material culture lagging behind material culture ex. medical procedures and ehtics |
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What is subculture, counterculture, and their differences?
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Subculture- groups whose cultural patterns set them apart from wider society
Counterculture- groups whose culture cultural patterns are at greater odds of wider society Difference- counterculture is a subcultures that OPPOSES certain aspects of larger group |
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Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
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Ethnocentrism- Biased "cultural yardstick"
Cultural Relativism- more accurate understanding |
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Culture Shock
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Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of one's surroundings
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Symbols
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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share culture; can carry different meanings from one group to another
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What are norms? Folkways, mores and taboos?
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Norms- established standards of behavior maintained by a society
Folkways- norms governing everyday behavior Mores- norms deemed highly neccessary to the welfare of society Taboos- ???? |
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Know the two types of sanctions
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Positive and negative
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Ideal vs Real Culture
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Ideal- the way things should be (run by values and norms)
Real- the way things actually are (only approximate culture expectations) |
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Cultural Diversity
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times when it is good for society other times it works "against the grain"
-subcultures-smaller groups within larger culture in a society -countercultures- opposing majority culture of a society |
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Know what acculturation means
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When there is a lot of conflict and one culture becomes "used to" the other
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What is popular culture?
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patterns within a culture that are widespread
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The definition of "self"
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Our interpretation of how others see us
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What socialization is
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Lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental and scoial skills needed for survival in society
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The three basic parts of psychoanalytic theory
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The differences between the "I" and "me"
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"I"
unpredictable spontaneous self-centered self-awareness responsive to "me" "I" am the one viewing "me" "me" socially derived rep of society predictable conformity past "I's" = "me" |
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The looking-glass self
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"the process in which individuals use otheres like mirrors and base their conceptions of themselves on what is reflected back to them during social interaction
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The "nature" vs "nurture" argument
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Nature- hereditary, biological
Nurture- environmental, sociological |
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The Social learning theory outlined by Piaget
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sensory motor period
preoperational period period of concrete operations period of formal operations |
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socialization
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the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society
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Agents of socialization
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People and groups who pass on culture through interacting w/in the context of social institutions
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Resocializtion
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have to re-do the socialization process in a new society/situation...
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Stages of socialization for adolescents
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pre-play stage
play stage game stage generalized other stage |
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Differential association
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theory if deviance by Edwin Sutherland that says violations of rules is from exposed to attitudes FAVORABLE to criminal acts
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differential reinforcement
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proximity hypothesis
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