Culture

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Totality of learned socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior

Question 2

Culture Industry

Answer 2

Worldwide media industry that standardizes goods and services demanded by consumers

Question 3

Cultural Universes

Answer 3

Certain common practices + beliefs that all societies have developed

Question 4

Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

Tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represents the norm or is superior to others

Question 5

Cultural Relativision

Answer 5

Viewing people’s behaviors from the perspective of their own culture

Question 6

Diffusion

Answer 6

Process by which cultural items spread from group to group or society to society

Question 7

Material Culture

Answer 7

Physical or technological aspects of daily lives

Question 8

Non-Material Culture

Answer 8

Ways of using material objects; and customs, beliefs, philosophies, government, and patterns of communications

Question 9

Culture Lag

Answer 9

Period of maladjustments when non-material struggles to adapt to new material conditions