Culture Flashcards
Patterns of behavior
Within a single culture, the behavior most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations
Cultural knowledge
Information, skills, attitudes, conceptions, beliefs, values, and other mental components of culture that people socially learn during anculturation
Culture
Socially learned knowledge and patters of behavior shares by some group of people
Culture identity
Cultural tradition a group of people recognize as their own; the shared customs and beliefs that define how a group sees itself as distinctive
Subculture
Cultural differences characteristic if members of various ethnic groups, regions, religions, and do forth within a single society or country
Socialization
Process of social learning of culture by children
Enculturation
Transmission by socialization of cultural knowledge to the next generation
Role
Rights and duties that individuals receive because of their personal identity or membership in a social group
Norms
Shared ideals and/or expectations about how certain people ought to act in given situations
Values
Shared ideas or standards about the worthwhileness of goals and lifestyles
Symbols
Objects, behavior, qualities, and other phenomena whose culturally defined meanings have no necessary relationship to their inherent physical qualities
Classification of reality
Ways the members of a culture divide up the natural and social world into categories, usually linguistically encoded
Worldview
Ways people interpret reality and events, including how they see themselves relating to the world around them
Cultural determinism
Notion that beliefs and behaviors of individuals are programmed by their culture
Biological determinism
Idea that biologically inherited differences between populations are important influences on cultural differences between them.
