*ch 3

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

shared beliefs, values, and practices

Question 2

material culture

Answer 2

the objects or belongings of a group of people

Question 3

non-material culture

Answer 3

the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society

Question 4

popular culture

Answer 4

mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population

Question 5

high (or dominant) culture

Answer 5

the cultural patterns of a society’s elite

Question 6

sub-culture

Answer 6

groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist
within a larger society

Question 7

counterculture

Answer 7

groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns

Question 8

ethnocentrism

Answer 8

the practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one’s own culture

Question 9

norms

Answer 9

the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured

Question 10

folkways

Answer 10

direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture

Question 11

mores

Answer 11

the moral views and principles of a group

Question 12

formal norms

Answer 12

established, written rules

Question 13

informal norms

Answer 13

casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to

Question 14

symbols

Answer 14

gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture

Question 15

beliefs

Answer 15

tenets or convictions that people hold to be true

Question 16

values

Answer 16

a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society