Chapter 2: Culture Flashcards
Cultural Knowledge
Information that enables people to function in their society and contribute to the survival of the society as a whole.
cultural models
Shared assumptions that people have about the ideal culture.
norms
Set of commonly held expectations and attitudes that people have about appropriate behavior
subculture
A group whose members and others think of their way of life as different ins some significant way from that of other people in the larger society.
enculturation
process of learning one’s culture through informal observation and formal instruction.
taboo
norms specifying behaviors that are prohibited in culture.
cultural core
Practices by which people organize their work and produce food and other goods necessary for their survival.
cultural integration
tendency for people’s practices and beliefs to form a relatively coherent and consistent system
naturalized concepts
ideas and behaviors so deeply embedded in a culture that they are regarded as universally normal or natural
culture wars
internal disagreements in a society about cultural models or about how society or the world should be organized
counterculture
an alternative cultural model within a society that expresses different views about the way that society should be organized
worldview
A culture-based often ethnocentric way that people see the world and other peoples.
culture contact
Direct interaction between peoples of different culture through migration, trade, invasion, or conquest.
syncretism
Process by which a cultural product is created when people adapt a cultural item selectively borrowed from another culture to fit their existing culture
Assimilation
Process by which less numerous and less powerful cultural group changes its ways and cultural identity to blend in with the dominant culture
