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What defines a culture |
The behaviors, believes, and characteristics of a particular social, ethnic, or age group (made up of different customs and practices) |
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What creates a culture |
Values- what a group holds to be important Beliefs- intangible thoughts, processes, and ideas as connected to a culture Practice's- things that people do that reflect culture |
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Explain the difference between a habit and a custom |
Customs- practiced by a large enough group of people that it becomes accepted as a culture trait Habits- traces back to individuals with wide variations from person to person |
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Choose and explain 3 culture treats |
Education- Australia school is your around America has summer breaks Sports- Australia's AFL wage is $362,471 Americans NFL wages $860,000 Economy-Australia does not have tipping Americans have tipping |
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List 3 characteristics of a folk culture |
Rural- isolation Traditional- diet, clothing Environment- housing. |
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How might contact with popular culture impact folk culture |
Loss of traditional values (change in diet housing and clothes) |
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How does popular culture differ from folk culture |
Folk culture- traditional practiced by groups in rural and isolated areas
Popular culture- found in large societee share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics |
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One effect of popular culture is globalization what is globalization |
Process by which people, places, regions, and countries become more interlinked and more interdependent on a global scale |
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How might you connect the netflix show "you" to culture imperialism |
Media and commercial "you" is available in 190 (media dominance) |
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Culture variation are differences in practices by his beliefs that cultures around the world exist can you research and provide a cultural variation between Canada and the United States |
-Maternity leave in the US gets very little time off for paid maternity leave -Canada gets a year are more a paid (80-55%) maternity leave |
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How would you explain what a cultural universal is |
Similar practices in culture worldwide |
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List an example of subculture then explain how culture may vary within the subculture |
Politics- democrats, Republicans.
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Counter culture groups go directly against the main culture provide an example of a counterculture group and explain why you chose that group |
Equal rights groups. I choose these groups they go against the norm and are rising above what their told. Therefore they are counter culture |
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Define/explain culture diffusion |
Spread of cultural beliefs from one group of people to another Through movement of people from one area to another |
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List 3 characteristics of religion that we learned in this class |
-Set of ideas tied together under the belief in some type of divine being -Guiding set of morality – set of principles to live by -Belief in an afterlife (Divine being, morality, afterlife) |
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What is the difference between a monotheistic religion versus polytheistic religion |
Monotheistic Religions-Belief in a single god-Examples – Judaism, Christianity, Islam Polytheistic Religions-Belief in many gods-Example – Hinduism = 33 million gods!!!! |
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Explain why Mr. Miller has to work so hard to become Jewish (think universal versus ethic) |
Universal- anyone's welcome Ethnic- usually born into it Jedism is ethnic meaning I woukd be hard for him to join since he isn't jewish |
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List and briefly explain the to basic principles of social structure |
Social Structure – a network of interrelated statuses & roles that guide human behavior Status – a socially defined position
Role – the behavior associated with a status |
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Which status is acquired to a person's direct efforts |
Achieved status |
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Which status is assigned according to qualities to beyond a person's control |
Ascribed |
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In a role _______ a person struggles to fulfill the expectations of more than one status held by them |
Conflict |
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In a Role _____ a person struggles to fulfill the multiple roles a single status demands |
Strain |
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Pick one of the 4 social interactions a person engages in daily and briefly explain |
Conflict – deliberate attempt to control a person by force, oppose someone, or to harm another |
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Judging another culture based from the values of your own culture |
Ethnocentrism- |
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Viewing foreigners as a threat or a danger |
Xenophobia
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Denial of rights to a person because of their perceived physical differences |
Racism |
