Chapter 2: Culture

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

a set of behaviors, such as language, beliefs, morals, laws, economic activities, political organization, art, crafts, and customs, that are passed from generation to generation

Question 2

enculturation

Answer 2

the process by which a child learns their culture

Question 3

children are…

Answer 3

capable of acquiring any culture regardless of genes or place of birth

Question 4

symbol

Answer 4

something that stands for something else

Question 5

Verbal symbols

Answer 5

words like door, cup, table

Question 6

Non verbal symbols

Answer 6

country flags, democratic and republican symbols

Question 7

diffusion

Answer 7

spread of ideas and practices from one culture to another

Question 8

acculturation

Answer 8

profound change of a culture as a result of consistent firsthand contact with another culture

Question 9

Technological Innovation

Answer 9

the changes due to new technology to a culture

Question 10

social unrest

Answer 10

citizens are not happy with the government so they raise up

Question 11

climate change

Answer 11

how the change of the climate affect certain groups of people and locations

Question 12

Cultural traits

Answer 12

cultural universals, cultural generalities, cultural particularities

Question 13

cultural universals

Answer 13

traits found in all cultures, expressed differently from culture to culture

Question 14

cultural generalities

Answer 14

found in some but not all cultures

Question 15

nuclear family

Answer 15

only parents and children living in one house, no other relatives, found mostly in English Culture

Question 16

cultural particularities

Answer 16

traits found only in one culture, becoming more increasingly rare

Question 17

cultural rights

Answer 17

rights of religious/ethnic minorities and indigenous groups to maintain their culture

Question 18

cultural rights

Answer 18

vested in groups

Question 19

human rights

Answer 19

vested in individuals

Question 20

Indigenous Intellectual property rights

Answer 20

rights if indigenous groups to control their collective knowledge and its applications

Question 21

ethnocentrism

Answer 21

tendency to view our culture as superior and to use our standards and values in judging other cultures

Question 22

South Africa

Answer 22

Botswaim, Nambia, the Kalahari desert is split across these

Question 23

cultural relativism

Answer 23

inappropriate to use our own standards and values to judge other cultures