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02 - CULTURE Flashcards

1
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Culture may be tangible, but not intangible. True or False?

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False. Culture may be both tangible and intangible.

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Leads to knowing who we are, identity, attachments.

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Culture

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Totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. It includes values, customs, and artifacts of a group of people.

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Culture

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Influences people’s mode of thinking, feeling, and acting. This is also the way of life of a group of people.

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Culture

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Refers to the physical or technological aspect of our daily lives, including food, houses, factories, raw materials.

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Material Culture

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Refers to ways of using material objects and to customs, beliefs, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication.

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Non-material Culture

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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.

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Language

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This is the foundation of every culture

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Language

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Serves to shape the reality of a culture.

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Language

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According to Saphir and Worf, since people can conceptualize the world only through language, language precedes thought. True or False?

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True.

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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.

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Norms

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Norms that have been WRITTEN down and specify STRICT punishments for violators.

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Formal Norms

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Norms that are generally understood but not precisely recorded.

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Informal Norms

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Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. Though unwritten but violations can lead to severe punishments

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Mores (FORMAL)

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Norms governing everyday behavior. Simple and habitual and violations are which little concern. Reinforce patterns of male dominance.

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Folkways (INFORMAL)

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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.

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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

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Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning social norm

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Sanctions

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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.

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Values

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Ideas that people hold about the universe and the total reality surrounding them

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Beliefs

20
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The process of introducing an idea or object which are new to the culture

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Innovation

21
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Results when existing cultural items are combined into a form that did not exist before

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Invention

22
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Involves making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality

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Discovery

23
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Process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group and society to society

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Diffusion

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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.

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Subculture

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Contradicts that relict into the dominance of a culture. Conspicuously and deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture

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Counterculture

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Feeling of frustration, uncertainty, and disorientation, when immersed in an unfamiliar culture

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Culture Shock

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Period of mal-adjustment when the material culture is struggling to adapt to new material conditions

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Cultural Lag

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Common practice or belief found in every culture

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Culture Universal

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Refers to the tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represents the norm or are superior to all others

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Ethnocentrism

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Tendency to assume that a foreign cultural element is superior compared to his/her own culture

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Xenocentrism

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Views people from the perspective of their own culture. Places priority on understanding other cultures, rather than dismissing them as “strange” or “exotic”

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Cultural Relativism

32
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Process of change according to the environment

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Adaptation

33
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Evolved process

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Culture

34
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What are the biological capacities for culture?

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Thinking, Speaking, Gripping, Walking/Standing Capacity

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