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 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 nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it.
Culture Shock:
The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it.
Diffusion:
The spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another.
Discoveries:
Things and ideas found from what already exists.
Ethnocentrism:
The practice of evaluating another 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.
