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.
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 of existing reality into new forms.
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.
Popular Culture:
Mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population.
