Ch. 4

Question 0

formal and informal ways to authorize conformity using social norms

Answer 0

sanctions

Question 1

People understand their world based on their form of language

Answer 1

sapir-whorf hypothesis

Question 2

two types of innovations in culture

Answer 2

discoveries and inventions

Question 3

symbolic system of communication

Answer 3

language

Question 4

gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterila cultures of acceptence of it

Answer 4

cultural lag?

Question 5

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

Answer 5

counter-culture

Question 6

a belief that another culture is superior

Answer 6

xenocentrism

Question 7

a deliberate imposition of one’s cultural values on another culture

Answer 7

cultural imperialism

Question 8

gestures or objects that have meaning

Answer 8

symbols

Question 9

direct appropriate behavior in the dat-to-day practices of a culture

Answer 9

folkways

Question 10

spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another

Answer 10

diffusion

Question 11

assessing a culture by its own standards

Answer 11

cultural reletavism

Question 12

the objects or belongings of a group of people

Answer 12

material culture

Question 13

integration of international trade and finance markets

Answer 13

globalization

Question 14

evaluating another culture according to your standards

Answer 14

ethnocentrism

Question 15

value in contrast to hierarchy/rank/status

Answer 15

equality

Question 16

moral views and principles of a group

Answer 16

morays

Question 17

groups within a larger society that share a specific identification apart from

Answer 17

sub-culture

Question 18

cultural patterns of a society’s elite

Answer 18

high culture

Question 19

established written rules

Answer 19

formal norms

Question 20

American value that is almost nonexistant in other cultures and is viewed negatively by such cultures

Answer 20

Privacy

Question 21

a status a person chooses

e.g. education, occupation

Answer 21

achieved status

Question 22

patterns of behavior that are representative of a social status

Answer 22

roles