Chapter 2

Question 1

The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next.

Answer 1

Culture.

Question 2

The material objects that distinguish a group of people such as their art building, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing and jewelry.

Answer 2

Material culture

Question 3

A group’s ways of thinking (including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world) and doing (its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction) also called symbolic culture.

Answer 3

Nonmaterial culture

Question 4

The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken for granted assumptions about life.

Answer 4

Culture shock.

Question 5

The language beliefs values norms behaviors and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next.

Answer 5

Culture.

Question 6

The material objects that distinguish a group of people such as their art buildings, weapons utensils, machines hairstyles clothing and jewelry. Technology. Anything you see feel or touch

Answer 6

Material culture

Question 7

Group’s way of thinking. Beliefs values and other assumptions about the world. Common patterns of behavior.

Answer 7

Non material culture

Question 8

The belief that your culture is superior to another.

Answer 8

Ethnocentrism.

Question 9

Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms.

Answer 9

Cultural relatism

Question 10

The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable.

Answer 10

Values- beliefs

Question 11

Expectations of right behavior.

Answer 11

Norms

Question 12

A reward or positive reaction for following norms, ranging from a smile to a material reward.

Answer 12

Positive Sanction

Question 13

An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal reaction.

Answer 13

Negative sanction

Question 14

The values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture. A world within a world.

Answer 14

Sub culture

Question 15

A group whose values beliefs norms and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader culture.

Answer 15

Counter culture.

Question 16

The clause that are central to a group, those around which a group builds a common identity.

Answer 16

Core values.

Question 17

Core Values

Answer 17

1. Achievement and success
2. Individualism
3. Hard work. Work ethic
4. Education
5. Religiosity
6. Romantic love

Question 18

Tools, skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools. Stone tool, cell phone

Answer 18

Technology.

Question 19

The emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life. Social media

Answer 19

New technology

Question 20

Ogburn’s term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations.

Answer 20

Cultural lag

Question 21

The spread of cultural traits from one group to another. Including material and nonmaterial culture.

Answer 21

Cultural diffusion.

Question 22

The process by which cultures become similar to one another.

Answer 22

Cultural leveling.