Culture

Question 1

What is Material Culture?

Answer 1

Material culture is everything that is a part of our constructed environment, such as books, fashion, and monuments

Question 2

What is Symbolic Culture (Non Material Culture)?

Answer 2

Nonmaterial culture encompasses values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms
- 5 elements: symbols, language, norms, values, and beliefs

Question 3

What is Cultural Lag?

Answer 3

Cultural lag is the time gap between the appearance of a new technology and the words and practices that give it meaning
Ex. Cell phone manners, self driving cars, 23 and me, and zoom

Question 4

What is Subcultures?

Answer 4

Subcultures differentiate themselves from the wider culture through symbolic and material means, often adapting and repurposing existing cultural goods for new purposes

Question 5

What is Fan Culture?

Answer 5

Fan culture, or fandom: Describes communities build around a shared enjoyment of an aspect of a specific culture

Question 6

What is Cultural integration?

Answer 6

A minority group within a given society adopts aspects of the dominant culture through either cultural diffusion or adapting to another societies social norms while retaining their original culture.

Question 7

What is Cultural Leveling?

Answer 7

The process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and become more and more alike.

Question 8

What is Culture?

Answer 8

shared ways of humans social groups; common experiences passed on from one generation to another

Question 9

What Is Acculturation?

Answer 9

Assimilation to a different culture; typically the dominant one