Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is culture?
Knowledge, language, customs passed down
What is nonmaterial culture?
Abstract/intangible facets of culture (like language)- pattern of behavior that directs human life
What is material culture?
Things we make, use, and share (tech, instruments, architecture)
What is language?
Culturally specific set of symbols that express ideas and let people think, communicate, and cooperate with each other
What is a cultural universal?
Aspect of culture found in every society
What are values?
Collective ideas about good/bad, right/wrong. (Shared by a lot of people)
What are some core American values?
Individualism, achievement/success, work, efficiency
What are norms?
Established values
What are folkways?
Informal norms/everyday customs enforcing informal sanctions. Weird rxns if violated.
What are mores?
Formal rules with laws/formal consequences if
What are taboos?
Extremely offensive, unmentionable, often don’t have laws because they’re that out there
What are laws?
Norms enforced by sanctions
What is culture shock?
Disorientation people feel with drastic cultural differences
What is ethnocentrism?
Judging another person’s culture by your own
What is cultural relativism?
Viewing practices by a culture’s own standards
What is cultural diversity?
Wide range of cultural differences between societies
What is a subculture?
People who accept main values, but have some different ones
What is a counterculture?
Group that outright rejects values of society (EG Aryan brotherhood)
