Chapter 2 Flashcards
Material culture
The physical objects that people create and use eg. Automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, computers, and cooking utensils.
Culture
Consists of all shared products of human groups
Non material culture
Abstract human creations eg. Belief, family patterns, ideas, language, political and economical systems, skills and work practices
Society
A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and a feeling of unity
Technology
A societies culture consisting of not only physical objects but also rules for using those objects
Language
An organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.
Values
Shares beliefs about what is good and bad, right or wrong, and desirable or indesirable
Norms
Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
Folkways
Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.
Mores
Have a great moral significance attached to them.
Laws
Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
Cultural trait
An individual tool act or belief that is related to a particular situation it need.
Culture complexes
Individual culture traits that combine to form the next level.
Culture patterns
Culture complexes combine to form this larger level.
Cultural universals
These feature common to all cultures
