Culture

Question 1

Everything we make and consume-including our ideas, attitudes, traditions, and practices-beyond that bare necessity

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Physical goods, often placed in an an economic system

Answer 2

Material culture

Question 3

Beliefs, values, language

Answer 3

Symbolic culture

Question 4

How a set of images and words can represent a particular culture

Answer 4

Collective representations

Question 5

Cultural goods made for and enjoyed by elite groups

Answer 5

High culture

Question 6

Heavily produced and commercialized goods made for and consumed by a large audience

Answer 6

Popular culture

Question 7

Moral beliefs

Answer 7

Values

Question 8

Rules and expectations by which a group guides the behavior of its members

Answer 8

Norms

Question 9

Adopting a set of informal rules and manners that are appropriate in a specific setting

Answer 9

Code switching

Question 10

Set of beliefs, values, and attitudes that we learn to use in different situations

Answer 10

Cultural toolkit

Question 11

The mass production of cultural goods requires a vast system of people and organizations

Answer 11

Cultural industries

Question 12

The acquisition of smaller corporations by larger ones

Answer 12

Corporate consolidation

Question 13

The practice of corporations like Target and Toyota supporting cultural institutions (e.g., the National History Museum of African American History and Culture) in order to improve their reputations and imply they value racial diversity

Answer 13

Diversity capital

Question 14

Investing in cultural institutions focused on Indigenous peoples in order to appear supportive of Indigenous groups

Answer 14

Branding indigeneity

Question 15

Gaining prestige by exhibiting valuable cultural goods, which implies to others that you are wealthy

Answer 15

Conspicuous consumption

Question 16

A group that holds values and engages in activities that separate members from the wider society

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Subculture

Question 17

Non-economic resources (knowledge, skills, behaviors) that are useful in a particular sphere of social life

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Cultural capital

Question 18

Contexts where a kind of cultural capital is exchanged, like a profession, a community, or a class of people

Answer 18

Fields

Question 19

Our learned dispositions, a set of tendencies organizing how we see the world and act within it

Answer 19

Habitus

Question 20

The social designation of honor

Answer 20

Status

Question 21

A collection of people who share similar characteristics that a community has given a certain level of prestige-a greater or lesser value when compared to other groups

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Status group

Question 22

The ways people separate each other into groups (through traditions, styles, tastes, classifications)

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Symbolic boundaries

Question 23

People who differentiate themselves by knowing a lot about many different cultural fields

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Cultural omnivores

Question 24

When intercultural communication and the exchange of ideas and values reaches such an international scale, integrating political and economic systems

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Globalization

Question 25

Increased efficiency, predictability, and control

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Rationalization

Question 26

Imposition of the dominant group’s material and symbolic goods

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Cultural imperialism

Question 27

When members of a dominant culture adopt the cultural goods (e.g., ideas, symbols, skills, expressions, intellectual property) of other groups for profit

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Cultural appropriation

Question 28

The practice of raising awareness around issues of McDonaldization, corporate consolidation, and cultural imperialism through informal and often illegal guerilla (independent and unauthorized) marketing campaigns

Answer 28

Culture jamming

Question 29

The international production, distribution, and marketing system of corporations, laborers, and consumers

Answer 29

Global commodity chain

Question 30

Ritzer’s term for the increased rationalization and globalization of culture

Answer 30

McDonaldization