Chapter 3 - Culture Flashcards
Beliefs
Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
Countercultures
Groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
Cultural Imperialism
The deliberate imposition of one’s own cultural values on another culture.
Cultural Relativism
The practice of assessing a culture by its own standards, and not in comparison to another culture.
Cultural Universals
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies
Culture
Shared beliefs, values, and practices
Culture Lag
The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and non material culture’s acceptance of it.
Culture Shock
An experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life
Diffusion
The spread of material and nonmaterial culture according to the standards of one’s own culture
Folkways
Direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
Formal Norms
Established, written rules
Globalization
The integration of international trade and finance markets
High Culture
The cultural patterns of a society’s elite
Ideal Culture
The standards a society would like to embrace and live up to
Informal Norms
Casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to
Innovations
New objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time
Inventions
A combination of pieces existing reality into new forms
Language
A symbolic system of communication
Material Culture
The objects or belongings of a group of people.
Language
A symbolic system of communication
Material Culture
The objects or belongings of a group of people
Mores
The moral views and principles of a group
Nonmaterial Culture
The ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society
Norms
The visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured
