2. The Nature Of Culture: Essential

Question 1

Bias

Answer 1

A way of privileging one argument or interest over another based on personal feeling rather than rational argument.

Question 2

Cultural Practice

Answer 2

The things people do in everyday life- such as greeting each other.

Question 3

Cultural Product

Answer 3

The things that we encounter in our daily lives.

Question 4

Elite Culture

Answer 4

The culture of those with power and influence.

Question 5

High Culture

Answer 5

According to Arnold “the best that has been thought and said” Art, Literature and Music.

Question 6

Popular (low) Culture

Answer 6

The products and practices of everyday life as practised and valued by ordinary people.

Question 7

Youth Culture

Answer 7

The cultural products and practices of the young.

Question 8

Ethnicity

Answer 8

A term which represents social groups with a shared history, sense of identity, geography and cultural roots which may occur despite racial difference. Ethnic character, background or affiliation.

Question 9

Gender

Answer 9

Refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

Question 10

MPEL (Meanings and Practices of Everyday Life)

Answer 10

The codes and conventions that govern the way we live our lives.

Question 11

Prejudice

Answer 11

A pre-formed opinion, usually an unfavourable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes.

Question 12

Register

Answer 12

Used to describe variations in the use of language or the other communication codes associated with a particular context such as a job, an area of technical expertise or social setting. As a student, part of the task is to learn the register of your subject so that you are able to write and speak as, say a historian or a geographer or a biologist.

Question 13

Ritual

Answer 13

The system of set procedures and actions of a group.

Question 14

Social class

Answer 14

Any category based on power, wealth or income.

Question 15

Socialisation

Answer 15

All of the processes through which we are inducted into society.

Question 16

Status

Answer 16

The relative position or standing of somebody or something in a society or other group.

Question 17

Stereotype

Answer 17

A mould into which reality is poured, whatever its individual shape. A stereotype is a simplified and generalised image of a group of people, which is created out of the values, judgements and assumptions of its creators, in most cases society itself. A stereotype of men might suggest their machismo or manliness.

Question 18

Style

Answer 18

A distinctive and identifiable form in an artistic medium such as music, architecture or literature: a way of doing something, especially a way regarded as expressing a particular attitude or typifying a particular period.

Question 19

Taboo

Answer 19

Forbidden to be used, mentioned, or approached because of social or cultural rather than legal prohibitions.