Ch 3 - Culture

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

the beliefs, way of life, art, and customs that are shared and accepted by people in a particular society

Question 2

Material Culture

Answer 2

Physical objects created, embraced, or consumed i.e. phones, cars, movies

Question 3

Non-Material Culture

Answer 3

Abstract creations about ideas of living. Traffic laws, dress code, words etc.

Question 4

Norms

Answer 4

Social expectations that guide behavior

Question 5

Mores

Answer 5

Strongly held norm, seriously offends society (Level 2).

Examples: 70 MPH in school zone, public nudity, belching at a nice restaurant

Question 6

Folkways

Answer 6

Norm passed down/ OK to violate it (Level 1).

Examples: White wedding dress, married in church

Question 7

Laws

Answer 7

Formal, institutionalized, enforced norm

Question 8

Ideal Culture

Answer 8

What a society might claim to have.

“Beauty is only skin deep”

Question 9

Real Culture

Answer 9

What a society actually has.

“Beauty is only skin deep”

Question 10

Cultural Inconsistency

Answer 10

Actual behavior contradicts cultural goal.

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

Judge other cultures by the standard of our own
“Our culture is normal”
No cheese in McDonald’s in Jerusalem

Question 12

Subcultures

Answer 12

Miami is a sub culture of the USA

Star trek

Question 13

Countercultures

Answer 13

KKK & Amish

Question 14

High Culture

Answer 14

Parts of culture held in the highest esteem.

Commonly the arts

Question 15

Popular Culture

Answer 15

Everything mainstream in culture. Ideas, perspectives, attitudes etc

Question 16

Cultural Relativism

Answer 16

Understand others actions in terms of their own culture