Chapter 5 Reddy

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Refers to aspects of human-made elements, including tools, dress, and media, in addition to values, attitudes, and norms

Question 2

Cultural Authentication
As more cultures have cross-cultural contact

Answer 2

People being to change aspects of their cultures by incorporating aspects of different cultures they come into contact with

Question 3

Culture is

Answer 3

A system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of a society

Question 4

Cultural Patterns

Answer 4

Characteristic behaviors and often include a complex array of choices

Question 5

Culture is a

Answer 5

Complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits that members of a society acquire

Question 6

Culture includes

Answer 6

Both abstract and concrete components

Question 7

Abstract components

Answer 7

Include the meanings of symbols, events, activities, or actions and how the meanings are created and selected

Question 8

Concrete components

Answer 8

The forms of action, behavior, event, activity, or artifact
Dress may be a concrete object

Question 9

Mentifacts

Answer 9

1. The ideas, values, and knowledge that shape how we see a culture and how we know or recognize patterns
2. Includes stereotypes that are held about groups of people who look certain ways
3. How people in a culture think and what they value are often reflected in dress (US big closets and Europe small)

Question 10

Sociofacts

Answer 10

1. Reflect how people behave in groups and social interactions
2. Uniform at work or dress up to show respect at another’s house
3. Socioeconomic status shown in clothes

Question 11

Artifacts

Answer 11

1. Reflect multiple aspects of a culture, such as mentifacts, sociofacts, and the technological knowledge of a culture that shapes manufacturing processes and materials used
2. Technological advancements and economic reality may exclude some clothing options

Question 12

Society

Answer 12

1. A group of people living and working together in a systematic way
2. Society requires people to coordinate their actions

Question 13

Dress is a

Answer 13

Product of systematic human interaction and it helps us to coordinate our interactions with others

Question 14

Holistic approach

Answer 14

The meaning of dress can be understood only through the study of all aspects of a culture

Question 15

Cultural Relativism

Answer 15

1. Seek to understand dress as it has meaning to a society “insider”
2. Need to examine characteristic of a culture and talk to people within the culture to find out what their dress means

Question 16

Ethnocentrism

Answer 16

1. Judgement of people of other cultures by one’s own cultural standards and beliefs
2. Hard to avoid
3. Corset wearing, foot binding, tanning, female circumcision, etc

Question 17

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 17

1. Related to changing cultural aesthetics or norms is cultural appropriation
2. Cornrows on white person
3. Appreciation vs appropriation