Ch. 4 Flashcards
formal and informal ways to authorize conformity using social norms
sanctions
People understand their world based on their form of language
sapir-whorf hypothesis
two types of innovations in culture
discoveries and inventions
symbolic system of communication
language
gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterila cultures of acceptence of it
cultural lag?
groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
counter-culture
a belief that another culture is superior
xenocentrism
a deliberate imposition of one’s cultural values on another culture
cultural imperialism
gestures or objects that have meaning
symbols
direct appropriate behavior in the dat-to-day practices of a culture
folkways
spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another
diffusion
assessing a culture by its own standards
cultural reletavism
the objects or belongings of a group of people
material culture
integration of international trade and finance markets
globalization
evaluating another culture according to your standards
ethnocentrism
value in contrast to hierarchy/rank/status
equality
moral views and principles of a group
morays
groups within a larger society that share a specific identification apart from
sub-culture
cultural patterns of a society’s elite
high culture
established written rules
formal norms
American value that is almost nonexistant in other cultures and is viewed negatively by such cultures
Privacy
a status a person chooses
e.g. education, occupation
achieved status
patterns of behavior that are representative of a social status
roles
