Chapter 3 - New Society

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

socially transmitted ideas, practice & material objects that people create to deal with real-life problems

Question 2

Abstractions

Answer 2

to allow us to create symbols or general ideas

Question 3

Cooperation

Answer 3

involves creating a complex social life by establishing norms

Question 4

Productions

Answer 4

make & use tools and techniques to improve our ability to take what we want from nature

Question 5

Social control or sanctions

Answer 5

rewards or punishments

Question 6

Language

Answer 6

system of symbols strung together to communicate thought

Question 7

Edward Sapir & Benjamin Lee Sapir-Whorf theory

Answer 7

the influential argument about the connection among experience thought & language. We experience important things in our environment & form concepts to develop languages to express

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

judging another culture exclusively by the standards of our own

Question 9

Multiculturalism

Answer 9

promotes & funds the maintanece of culturally diverse communities

Question 10

Cultural relativism

Answer 10

the idea that all cultures & cultural practices have equal values

Question 11

Right Revolution

Answer 11

the process where socially excluded groups have struggled to win equal rights under the law in practice

Question 12

Rationalization

Answer 12

to describe the application of the most efficient means to achieve given goals

Question 13

Consumerism

Answer 13

Tendency to define ourselves in terms of the goods & to achieve given goals

Question 14

Subculture

Answer 14

set of distinctive values, norms & practices within a larger culture

Question 15

Countercultures

Answer 15

Subversive subcultures, oppose dominant values