Culture

Question 1

code switching

Answer 1

adopting a set of informal rules and manners attuned to a particular setting

Question 2

collective representations

Answer 2

set of images and words that represent a particular culture

Question 3

cultural toolkit

Answer 3

beliefs, values, and attitudes to use based on the situation

Question 4

high culture

Answer 4

cultural goods for elite groups

Question 5

material culture

Answer 5

physical goods in an economic system

Question 6

popular culture

Answer 6

heavily produced and commercialized for a large audiencer

Question 7

rituals

Answer 7

routinized and important group activities

Question 8

symbolic culture

Answer 8

aspect of culture, includes beliefs, values, norms, language

Question 9

symbols

Answer 9

material or immaterial objects that groups affix meaning to

Question 10

values

Answer 10

moral beliefs

Question 11

conspicuous consumption

Answer 11

gaining prestige by exhibiting cultural goods

Question 12

corporate consolidation

Answer 12

acquisition of smaller corporations by larger ones

Question 13

culture industries

Answer 13

systems of organizations that produce and distribute cultural goods

Question 14

subculture

Answer 14

uses alternative symbolic and material cultural goods to distinguish themselves from a larger society

Question 15

boundary work

Answer 15

creating and maintaining symbolic boundaries to limit group membership and access to resources

Question 16

cultural capital

Answer 16

non-economic cultural resources (knowledge, skills)

Question 17

cultural omnivores

Answer 17

know a lot about different cultural fields

Question 18

field

Answer 18

context of social relations where cultural capital is exchanged

Question 19

habitus

Answer 19

learned disposition

Question 20

status

Answer 20

social designation of honor

Question 21

status group

Answer 21

collection of people with similar status

Question 22

symbolic boundaries

Answer 22

conceptual ways people separate each other into groups

Question 23

cultural appropriation

Answer 23

members of a dominant culture adopting cultural goods of another

Question 24

cultural imperialism

Answer 24

imposition of dominant group’s material

Question 25

global commodity chain

Answer 25

international production, distribution, marketing

Question 26

globalization

Answer 26

integration of political and economic systems, intercultural communication

Question 27

mcdonaldization

Answer 27

increased rationalization and globalization of culturer

Question 28

rationalization

Answer 28

capitalism’s trend towards increased calculability, efficiency, predictability