chapter 2: the role of culture

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

derives from the latin “colere”

Question 2

What are the characteristics of culture?

Answer 2

culture is shared
culture is symbolic
culture is integrated
culture is dynamic
culture is gratifying

Question 3

acquiring culture after we are born is called?

Answer 3

enculturation

Question 4

Is a word a symbol?

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

what is the definition of symbol?

Answer 5

something that stands for something else.

Question 6

What is a material culture?

Answer 6

what humans make, and the material object we create are usually the first indicators of cultural differences.

Question 7

what is cultural diffusion?

Answer 7

spreading culture

Question 8

what is culture transmission?

Answer 8

is the same process as the aquisition culture

Question 9

what is cultural pluralism?

Answer 9

used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities

Question 10

what is cultural shock?

Answer 10

when you go to someones house and have to take off your shoes.

Question 11

what is a melting pot theory?

Answer 11

theory of amalgamation

Question 12

what is culture assimilation?

Answer 12

when you give up root culture and brace a new one.

Question 13

what is maritial assimilation?

Answer 13

widespread intermarriage.

Question 14

what is cultural appropriation?

Answer 14

the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas

Question 15

what is cultural exchange?

Answer 15

given to any mutual sharing of information, usually cultural,