CULTURE B1 Flashcards
Process of adapting to a new culture. Awareness of the differences in values and customs. Associated with feelings of anxiety, confusion, and homesickness
CULTURE SHOCK
The attitude that one’s own group l, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.
Ethnocentrism
One has a preference for a foreign culture’s goods, ideas, styles, and traditions over their own culture.
Xenocentrism
Radical groups of people reject established social values and practices and who embrace a mode of life opposed to the mainstream.
Counterculture
A cultural group within a larger group.
Distinct values, norms, beliefs
Subculture
Father of American Anthropology who created Cultural Relativism
Frank Boas
Tries not to judge other culture based upon your own culture’s values.
Cultural Relativism
Emphasizes a universal truth that should be defended regardless of cultural differences
Universalism
Socially approaved and traditional norms or standards of everyday behavior.
Folkways
Considered to be morally, socially, and religiously unacceptable.
Taboos
Components of cultures
-Symbols
-Language
-Norms
-Values
-Artifact
Two types of culture
Material and Non- material
What is a material culture?
Tangible: tools, food, architecture, art.
What is non- material culture
Intangible: beliefs, customs, norms, and languange.
Cultural Variability
The dieffences in social behaviors, beliefs, customs, and societies.
Different solutions used by different people to solve problems of existence.
