Chapter 3- Culture

Question 1

What is culture?

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culture can be defined as shared human material and non-material products.

Question 2

“symbols” of a culture including gestures, language, values, norms, and sanctions are examples of what

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non-material culture

Question 3

gestures can be defined as

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extra way to communicate (body language)

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language is used to transmit…

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culture. It allows shared understandings according to the Sapir-Worf hypothesis

Question 5

Expresss our desires in life and cn include that which culture defines as standards

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values

Question 6

norms

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expectations we have for what is right and wrong good and bad

Question 7

folkways

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weak norms that we expect people to know and understand

Question 8

mores

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strongly enforced norms for which we may be sanctioned, carries a moral significance behind it

Question 9

taboos

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strongly sanctioned norms; behaviors we find repulsive like incest and cannibalism

Question 10

sanctions; positive and negative

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societal rewards or punishments

Question 11

Material culture is the

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artifacts and technology of a society

Question 12

artifacts of a culture can be defined as

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ITEMS created by a culture. Houses, computers, cars, telephones, motors, clothing etc

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Technology of a culture is the

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SKILLS necessary for making artifacts

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Behaviors developed in all cultures can be defined as

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cultural universals

Question 15

What is the belief that all cultures should act like your own

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ethnocentrism

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cultural relativism is the notion that

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each culture can only be measured in itself

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cultures from around the world incorporating parts of others into their own is knowns as

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cultural leveling

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culture lag is the

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parts of a culture don’t develop as rapidly as other parts (everyones use of the internet- old people still don’t really use it because they didn’t grow up that way.)

Question 19

subcultures

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groups within dominate culture, whose lifestyle might be a little different

Question 20

countercultures can be defined as

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cultures that often exhibit beliefs and values in opposition to expectations of the dominant culture