Culture (Unit 2)

Question 1

Symbols

Answer 1

An object, idea, drawing, sign, stereotype, or deity that holds significance in a culture’s society

Question 2

Norms

Answer 2

What is expected/accepted by a society

Question 3

Folkways

Answer 3

The ideas that are considered ‘rude’ versus ‘polite/accepted’–not legally punishable but can result in alienation or social dissaproval

Question 4

Mores

Answer 4

The ideas that are considered ‘right’ versus ‘wrong’–are legally enforceable and can result in stigma and prison time

Question 5

Ideal Culture

Answer 5

A culture that includes all of the values, beliefs, and norms that society aspires to achieve

Question 6

Real Culture

Answer 6

The actual values, beliefs, and norms that a society has (based on reality and not aspiration)

Question 7

Counterculture

Answer 7

When a group breaks away from the norms and creates an offshoot of their own culture that rubs against the norms of the main society

Question 8

Subculture

Answer 8

Groups that are of their own culture, that separate a greater society by interests, norms, identities, etc

Question 9

Values

Answer 9

What a culture priorities morally

Question 10

Sociobiology

Answer 10

The study of (or reference to) the biological basis of social behavior

Question 11

Cultural Universals

Answer 11

Ideas that are excepted widely through a culture, and are agreed apon by subcultures as well

Question 12

Rites of Passage

Answer 12

An action that someone can take to move up to a new social status, typically a pressured norm

Question 13

Material Culture

Answer 13

Basing societal worth or status on physcial objects or things that you can obtain physically

Question 14

Non-material Culture

Answer 14

The parts of society that place worth on things that are not physically tangible