Lecture 2: Societal Depth

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Sum of Socially Transmitted Ideas, Practices, and Material Objects that people create to deal with real life problems

Question 2

society

Answer 2

group of people who interact in a definable territory and share the same culture

Question 3

Dominant Culture

Answer 3

The ruling class that establishes dominance by controlling certain aspects of daily life

Question 4

Subordinate Culture

Answer 4

the ones that are being controlled

Question 5

Cultural Hegemony

Answer 5

the control of a culture by dominant classes and other groups to where their uni-values are accepted as common

Question 6

High culture

Answer 6

culture consumed by higher status individuals

Question 7

low culture

Answer 7

culture consumed by all classes

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

judging other cultures by the standards of our own (Christianity)

Question 9

Multiculturalism gov.

Answer 9

federal gov policy that encourages and maintains culturally diverse communities (canada)

Question 10

multiculturalism not gov.

Answer 10

communities and nations of different ethnic and racial background

Question 11

countercultures

Answer 11

subversive subcultures that oppose dominant values and wanna replace them

Question 12

subculture

Answer 12

set of specific values, norms and practices within a wide range of culture

Question 13

components of culture

Answer 13

evolutionary psychologists’, genetics evolving with environment, language

Question 14

types of norms

Answer 14

Folkway, norms and values, taboos, ideas, sanctions, mores

Question 15

folkway

Answer 15

not punishable just socially looked down on

Question 16

norms

Answer 16

accepting way of doing things

Question 17

mores

Answer 17

core norm society beliefs in and is essential for us to live

Question 18

abstraction

Answer 18

ideas that people create

Question 19

symbols

Answer 19

signs or things that carry meaning (math)

Question 20

taboo

Answer 20

type of unacceptable norm punishable severely

Question 21

production

Answer 21

human capacity to use tools

Question 22

material culture

Answer 22

tools and techniques to that enable people to accomplish tasks

Question 23

symbolic interactionists theory

Answer 23

Human behaviour governs by meaning people attach to things, specifically in social areas, communication, and social interactions

Question 24

Sapir-wholf

Answer 24

experience, conceptualization, and verbalization of behaviours of experiences and form concepts of those

Question 25

conflict theory approaches

Answer 25

1. social structure
2. inequality
3. conflict and change

Question 26

feminist

Answer 26

a person that stands for equal rights (men and women)

Question 27

structural functionalism

Answer 27

thought according to the institutions, roles, and norms that constitute in society

Question 28

globalization

Answer 28

process which formerly separated individuals, groups, institutions, economies, states, and culture become tied together, and ppl being aware of the independence

Question 29

Postmodernism

Answer 29

culture which is culturally mixed of elements from different times, places and the erosion of authority and decline of world values

Question 30

culture in freedom

Answer 30

the rapid growth, understanding, acceptance and tolerance of different kinds of cultures

Question 31

culture constraint

Answer 31

culture that acts as constraining forces on our lives

Question 32

rationalization

Answer 32

Werkenglocken, widespread acceptance of regiment means to increase productivity.
McDonaldization

Question 33

Consumerism

Answer 33

tendency to define ourselves as our goods, and services we purchase. “I shop, therefore I am”

Question 34

Components of Culture: Language

Answer 34

a system in that, when stringed together, forms way we communicate

Question 35

what is language based off?

Answer 35

1. common understanding
2. experience
3. knowledge
4. evolving with changing circumstances

Question 36

non-verbal commuication

Answer 36

culturally defined expectations of appropiate behaviour is largely gendered

Question 37

insult and harm don’t understand gestures and body language

Answer 37

1. white mental health workers misinterpret indigenous body language
2. indigenous culture = maintaining eyecontact (disrepectful, dishonest, guilty)

Question 38

automatic process

Answer 38

acquire info to assess situation

Question 39

status cues rule 3 + 4

Answer 39

3. makes interaction easier
4. status can degenerate into stereotypes (rigid views how certain people act, regardless of whether individual group members behave that way)