chapter 2 - exam reviewer Flashcards
what arises when individuals are knit together in a network of mutual stimulus and response?
society
what encompasses belief, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms that a person learns and shares as a member of society?
culture
what are the 3 components of culure? IAA
idea
activities
artifacts
these are the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and rules. it is included ways on how to make things, abstract concepts: love, peace and happiness
ideas
it is when people do as opposed to what they believe or feel. it can be punishing, sacrifice and celebration.
activities
these are man-made products of idea and activities.
artifacts
what is a type of culture that is acquired?
learned
type of culture where u are endowed with a critical mind to understand things as well as cultivate his or her own values and worldview
shared
type of culture that is manifested in Language, wherein meanings are socially constructed
symbolic
true or false: Cultural behaviors allow people to fit into and adapt to their respective environment
true
what is shared by groups of people and depend much on those groups for validity and transmission?
cultural behavior
what are theories of reciprocity complementary and mutuality of responses?
social interaction
what is the act of imitating the act of others?
social learning
what is the soul of culture?
language
what is the gene-like in producing behavior?
words
who attempts to reconstruct the earlier language forms from which our contemporary language evolved?
linguists
what is the study and analysis of language?
linguistic
this is not just learning but also fitting means to better understand the nature of human beings and ways to connect
linguistic
what are symbols or non-verbal forms? they are linked and represent in meaningful ways
human behavior
what do u call the view of ones group being more superior than the other?
ETHNOCENTRISM
what do u call it when a group or society uses their own values and norms by measuring others folkways and values?
ETHNOCENTRISM
what do u call it when a group is considered as the center of everything and all other groups are scaled and rated in relation to it?
ETHNOCENTRISM
what is the ability to fully understand another culture largely?
cultural relativism
what stresses that different social contexts give rise to different forms and values?
cultural relativism
