Culture Flashcards
cultural knowledge
information, skills, attitudes, conceptions, beliefs, values, and other mental components of culture that people socially learn durng enculturation
patterns of behavior
within a single culture, the behavior most people perform when they are in certain culturally defined situations
cultural integration
the interrelationships among the various components (elements, subsystems) of a cultural system
culture
the socially learned knowledge and patterns of behavior shared by some groups of people
Cultural identity
the 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 of members of various ehtnic groups, religions, ad so forth within a single society or country
socialization
the process of social learning of culture by children (similar to enculturation)
enculturation
the transmission (by social learning) of cultural knowledge to the next generation (similar to socializtion)
role
rights and duties that individuals recieve because of their personal identity or membership in a social group
Material culture
Artifacts and other physical, visible manifestations of culture, including art, architectural features, tools consumer goods, clothing, and writing
norms
shared ideals and/or expectations about how certain people ought to act in given situations
values
shared ideas or standards about the worthwhile-ness of goals and lifestyles
symbols
objects, behaviors, sound combinations, and other phenomena wwhose culturally defined meanings have no necessary relationship to their inherent physical qualities
Classifications (or cultural constructions) of reality
ways in which the members of a culture divide up the natural and social world into categories, usually linguistically encoded
worldview
the way people interpret reality and events, including how the see themselves relating to the world around them
