03 - Informal Institutions

Question 1

define culture and articulate its four main manifestations: language, religion, social structure, and education.

Question 2

discuss how cultures systematically differ from each other.

Question 3

understand the importance of ethics and ways to combat corruption.

Question 4

participate in two leading debates concerning cultures, ethics, and norms.

Question 5

Ethnocentrism

Answer 5

self centered mentality by a group of people who perceive their culture, ethics, and norms ass natural, rational, and morally right

Question 6

culture

Answer 6

collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another

Question 7

Lingua franca

Answer 7

global business language

Question 8

social mobility

Answer 8

degree to which members from lower social categories can rise to a higher status

Question 9

social stratafication

Answer 9

hierarchal arrangement of individuals into social categories such as classes castes and divisions within a society

Question 10

social structure

Answer 10

the way society broadly organizes its members

Question 11

Cultural differences using 3 approaches

Answer 11

context, cluster and dimension

Question 12

5 dimensions of culture

Answer 12

power distance,
individualism/collectivism,
masc/fem,
uncertainty avoidance,
long term orientation