02 - CULTURE Flashcards
Culture may be tangible, but not intangible. True or False?
False. Culture may be both tangible and intangible.
Leads to knowing who we are, identity, attachments.
Culture
Totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. It includes values, customs, and artifacts of a group of people.
Culture
Influences people’s mode of thinking, feeling, and acting. This is also the way of life of a group of people.
Culture
Refers to the physical or technological aspect of our daily lives, including food, houses, factories, raw materials.
Material Culture
Refers to ways of using material objects and to customs, beliefs, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication.
Non-material Culture
Abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It includes speech, written characters, numerals, symbols, and non-verbal gestures and expressions.
Language
This is the foundation of every culture
Language
Serves to shape the reality of a culture.
Language
According to Saphir and Worf, since people can conceptualize the world only through language, language precedes thought. True or False?
True.
Established standards of behavior maintained by society. These are rules that govern human behavior and define what ought to do and not to do in a given situation.
Norms
Norms that have been WRITTEN down and specify STRICT punishments for violators.
Formal Norms
Norms that are generally understood but not precisely recorded.
Informal Norms
Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. Though unwritten but violations can lead to severe punishments
Mores (FORMAL)
Norms governing everyday behavior. Simple and habitual and violations are which little concern. Reinforce patterns of male dominance.
Folkways (INFORMAL)
Involves partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Observed in Western Africa and was required until 1990s.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning social norm
Sanctions
Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper in a culture. These indicates what people in a given culture prefer as well as what they find important and morally right. Influence people’s behavior and serve as criteria for evaluating the actions of others.
Values
Ideas that people hold about the universe and the total reality surrounding them
Beliefs
The process of introducing an idea or object which are new to the culture
Innovation
Results when existing cultural items are combined into a form that did not exist before
Invention
Involves making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality
Discovery
Process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group and society to society
Diffusion
Group within a group. Segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from pattern of the larger society.
Subculture
