Culture

Question 1

What is Culture?

Answer 1

The lifestyle of a group of people
Ex: traditions, clothing, food, family, religion, language, architecture, holidays, art, music, education, precious cultures

Question 2

What are the 3 parts to Culture?

Answer 2

1. Mores
2. Folkways
3. Norms

Question 3

Mores

Answer 3

The laws and ethical values of a group of people

• define the rightness and wrongness of an act
• divided into 2 types: Real Mores & Ideal Mores

Question 4

Real Mores

Answer 4

Include the laws of culture and thus have punishments attached to it
Ex: kill someone —> go to prison

Question 5

Ideal Mores

Answer 5

Values and ethical beliefs of a culture or a subgroup within a culture
Ex: people who are anti-abortion

Question 6

Folkways

Answer 6

The traditions of a culture

• can include the way a culture celebrates holidays or defines certain days as holidays
• if one breaks a folkway there is usually no punishment attached
• however folkways can become so imbedded in a culture that they can become Mores

Question 7

Norms

Answer 7

The expected behavior or the way people should act in certain situations
- Norms DO NOT equal normal

Question 8

Difference between Norms and Normal

Answer 8

Normal can include accepted behavior or what society has allowed to happen

Norms: expected, supposed
Normal: accepted, allowed

Question 9

Subculture

Answer 9

A group within a culture that seeks to retain its own .mores, Folkways, and Norms but still adheres to the Mores, Folkways, and Norms of the dominant culture

Ex: cults, immigrant groups

Question 10

Counter Culture

Answer 10

A group within a culture that DOES NOT adhere to the Mores, Folkways, and Norms of the dominant culture

• Seeks to change the Mores, Folkways, and Norms of the dominant culture into its own Mores, Folkways, and Norms

Ex: KKK, Neo Nazi Groups, Anarchists