Culture

Question 1

non material culture

Answer 1

the ideas created by members of a society

Question 2

MATERIAL CULTURE

Answer 2

the physical things created by members of a society

Question 3

cultural transmission

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the process by which one generation passes culture onto the next

Question 4

sapir-whorf hypothesis

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people percieve the world through the cultural lens of language

Question 5

norms

Answer 5

rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members

Question 6

mores

Answer 6

norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance

Question 7

folk ways

Answer 7

norms for routine or casual interaction

Question 8

social control

Answer 8

attempts by others to regulate peoples thoughts and behaviors

Question 9

ideal culture

Answer 9

social patterns mandated by cultural values and norms

Question 10

real culture

Answer 10

actual social patterns that only approximate cultural expectations

Question 11

high culture

Answer 11

cultural patterns that distinguish a societies elite

Question 12

popular culture

Answer 12

cultural patterns that are widespread throughout society

Question 13

sub culture

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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societies population

Question 14

multiculturalism

Answer 14

social policy designated to encourage ethnic or cultural heterogeneity

Question 15

euro centurism

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the dominance of european cultural patterns

Question 16

counter culture

Answer 16

cultural patterns that strongly appose those widely accepted within a society

Question 17

cultural integration

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the close relationship among various elements of a cultural system

Question 18

cultural lag

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cultural elements changing at different rates casing various degrees of disruption in cultural systems

Question 19

ethnocentrism

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the practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own

Question 20

cultural relativism

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the practice of judging a culture by its own standards

Question 21

cultural universals

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traits that are part of every known culture

Question 22

sociobiology

Answer 22

a theoretical approach that explores the ways in which human biology effects how we create culture