Culturee

Question 1

What is the culture?

Answer 1

Culture is the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in society.

Question 2

what are two categories of culture?

Answer 2

Material culture and non-material culture

Question 3

What is material culture?

Answer 3

consists of physical and tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share.

Question 4

What is non-material culture?

Answer 4

abstract or intangible human creations of a society that influence people’s behavior

Question 5

What are the two forms of language?

Answer 5

There are two forms of language which are verbal-spoken language and non-verbal language - written or gesture.

Question 6

What are values?

Answer 6

Values are collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture.

Question 7

Describe American values?

Answer 7

Americans value individualism. Individualism means independence and self-reliance. Americans express themselves more openly because they value their own opinion. They believe they are responsible for their own success and failure by what they do rather than blaming situational factors.

Question 8

What does “mutually exclusive” mean?

Answer 8

they are separate, can not be merged

Question 9

What are taboos?

Answer 9

There are some serious norms that if you violate them, serious consequences may ensure.

Question 10

What is cultural diversity?

Answer 10

the wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations

Question 11

Another phrase for a highly diverse society?

Answer 11

heterogeneous societies >< homogeneous societies

Question 12

ethnocentrism

Answer 12

based on the assumption that your own way of life and thinking is superior to all others.

Question 13

Distinguish between high culture and pop culture?

Answer 13

1. High culture patronize things like fine arts, opera, or ballet
2. Pop culture or popular culture consists of activities, products, and services that appeal primarily to members of middle and working classes such as sports, movies, rock music.

Question 14

What are the two forms of popular culture?

Answer 14

1. A fad is a temporary, short-lived thing or activity followed by a lot of enthusiastic people
2. A fashion lasts longer than a fad. It’s a valued style of behavior, thinking, or appearance.