Chapter 2: Culture

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The word cultivate suggests that people living together in a society actually grow their way of life overtime

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Question 1

Culture refers to a society’s entire way of life

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Question 2

The United States is the most multicultural nation of all

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Question 3

Culture is the ways of thinking the ways of acting and the material objects that together form a peoples way of life

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Nonmaterial culture is the ideas created by members of a society, ideas there range from art to zen

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Material culture is the physical things created by members of a society everything from armchairs to zippers

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Cultural shock is the personal deterioration when experiencing in unfamiliar way of life

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Question 7

No particular way of life is natural to humanity

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Question 8

Behavior is guided by instinct, biological programming over which the species have no control

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Question 9

Homo sapiens is Latin for intelligent person

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Question 10

A nation is a political entity a territory with designated borders

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Society refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture

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Question 12

There are 382 languages spoken in the United States almost half of them are native language with the rest brought by immigrants from nations around the world

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Question 13

Globally there are almost 7000 languages

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Question 14

Although cultural is vary greatly, they all have common elements including symbols , language, values, and norms

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Question 15

Human transform elements of the world into symbols

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A symbol is anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

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Question 17

Language is the key to the world of culture, it is a system of symbols that allow people to communicate with one another

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Question 18

The three most widely spoken languages are English, Chinese, and Spanish

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Question 19

Language not only allows communication but is also the key to cultural transmission which is the process by which one generation passes cultural to the next

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Question 20

Throughout human history every society has transmitted culture by using speech a process sociologist call the oral cultural tradition

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Question 21

The Sapir-Whorf thesis holds that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language

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Question 22

Values are culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living

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Question 23

Values are broad principles that support beliefs, specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be true

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Question 24

Values are abstract standers of goodness and beliefs are particular matters that individuals consider true or false

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