Lesson 2 Flashcards
Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
Countercultures
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies
Cultural universals
Shared beliefs, values, and practices
Culture
The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of It
Culture lag
The spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another
Diffusion
Things and ideas found from what already exists
Discoveries
The evaluation and judgment of another culture based on one’s own cultural norms.
Ethnocentrism
Direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
Folkways
Established, written rules
Formal norms
The integration of international trade and finance markets
Globalization
The cultural patterns of a society’s elite
High culture
The standards a society would like to embrace and live up to
Ideal culture
Casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to
Informal norms
New objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time
Innovations
A combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms
Inventions
A symbolic system of communication
Language
The moral views and principles of a group
Mores
The visible and Invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured
Norms
Mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population
Popular culture
The way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists
Real culture
A way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors
Sanctions
The way that people understand the world based on their form of language
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
A way to encourage conformity to cultural norms
Social control
People who live in a definable community and who share a culture
Society
Groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist within a larger society
Subcultures
Gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture
Symbols
A culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society
Values
Types of Society
I. Preindustrial Society
II. Industrial Society
III. Postindustrial Society
