Culture

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

The specialized behavior patterns, understandings, adaptations, and social systems of a group of people that are shared and passed down

Question 2

Mentifact

Answer 2

Non-material attitudinal elements and values like language and religion

Question 3

Sociofact

Answer 3

Non-material norms involved in group structure

Question 4

Artifact

Answer 4

Material human-made objects related to peoples’ livelihood

Question 5

What are 6 components of culture?

Answer 5

• Culture traits
• Culture complex
• Culture system
• Culture region
• Culture realm
• Globalization

Question 6

Culture Trait

Answer 6

Units of learned behavior evident by artifacts, language, a belief, a tecchnique

Question 7

Culture Complex

Answer 7

Individual culture traits that are functionally interrelated

Question 8

Culture System

Answer 8

Two or more cultural complexes that are linked by a larger set of shared traits and may have other traits that are not common

Question 9

Culture Region

Answer 9

Areas in which there is a degree of homogeneity in cultural characteristics

Question 10

Culture Realm

Answer 10

Related culture regions that cover a large part of land

Question 11

Mesolithic

Answer 11

Early age of culture development characterized by cultural divergence, and transition towards agriculture (10 000- 11 000 BP)

Question 12

Neolithic

Answer 12

Early stage of cultural development characterized by new tools, technologies, and social structures among sedentary populations

Question 13

Multilinear evolution

Answer 13

Cultural innovations occurring independently in parallel ecological regions

Question 14

Cultural Convergence

Answer 14

Increase in adoption of unique cultural aspects by other groups

Question 15

“The cradle of civilization”

Answer 15

Mesopotamia

Question 16

5 Early Urban Civilizations

Answer 16

• Mesopotamia (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran)
• China
• Sumer and Gilgamesh
• Egypt
• India

Question 17

8 Characteristics of emerging Civilizations

Answer 17

• Productive agriculture
• Stratification and labour specialization
• Knowledge of astronomy, mathematics
• Spread of it’s culture
• Public monuments
• Widespread trade
• Writing system
• State orginization

Question 18

3 “M”s of Change (From US folk culture to a National culture)

Answer 18

• Mechanization
• Mass production
• Mass distribution

Question 19

Characteristics of Folk culture

Answer 19

• small scale
• consistant
• rural
• resistant to change

Question 20

Characteristics of popular culture

Answer 20

• large
• messy
• urban
• rapid change

Question 21

Local culture

Answer 21

People with shared experiences, customs, and traits distinguish themselves from others:

• they keep other cultures out
• avoid cultural appropriation

Question 22

Cultural appropritation

Answer 22

The process of adopting customs and knowledge from other cultures for personal benefit

Question 23

Neolocalism

Answer 23

Reinvigorating regional culture in response to globalization

Question 24

Commodification

Answer 24

The process trough which something is given monetary value

Question 25

Acculturation

Answer 25

Process of an ethnic individual/group being absorbed into larger society while keeping distinction

Question 26

Three parts of cultural assimilation

Answer 26

• Behavioral assimilation
• Structural assimilation (social systems, occupations)
• spatial assimilation

Question 27

Ideas that contribute to resistance of change

Answer 27

• Culture rebound: re-adoption of ancestors culture
• Xenophobia: fear of foreigners
• Ethnophobia: fear of a specific ethnic group
• Ethnocentrism: One ethnic group is superior

Question 28

What indicates the convergence of cultural landscapes?

Answer 28

1. Diffusion of architecture
2. Globalization of businesses and products
3. Common idealized landscape