Lesson 2: Culture Flashcards
True or False: The notion of culture presents a complex portrait of humanity.
True
The aspects of culture
Culture is
- learned
- symbolic
- dynamic
- all encompassing
- shared
- integrated or holistic
How is culture learned?
Culture is acquired by a person born in a particular place and society. As they grow, the cultural traits and heritage of their people are passed down onto them.
How is culture symbolic?
Culture renders meaning to what people do. Culture composes both of tangible and intangible symbols that represent specific mottos, beliefs, values, standards, and perspectives held by a specific kind of place or society.
How is culture holistic and shared?
There are several different aspects and facets of society that work together to complete such. Meanings, belief systems, traditions, practices, activities, and other processes all seek to make one whole culture and are shared by the people who are part of it.
How is culture dynamic?
Culture continuously changes.
True or False: Nature shapes culture.
True
True or False: Culture shapes nature.
True
How is culture all encompassing?
Culture covers every feature of humanity. It is a complex whole system that includes beliefs, practices, traits, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, etc.
Who identified history and biography as aspects relevant to understanding society?
Wright Mills
Wright Mills identified ___ and ___ as essential aspects to understanding society,
History and Biography
What pertains to issues or larger social challenges?
History
What entails troubles or personal challenges?
Biography
True or False: Issues are individual challenges felt at collective levels.
False
True or False: Troubles are individual challenges felt at personal levels.
True
True or False: Issues are societal challenges felt at personal levels.
False
True or False: Issues are societal challenges felt at collective levels.
True
True or False: Troubles are societal challenges felt at collective levels.
False
When we combine troubles and issues and biography and history, we perform?
Sociological Imagination
What are the major elements of culture?
Symbols, language, norms, values, artifacts
A representation of ideas thar evoke certain emotions and convey certain meanings that people share and understand
Symbols
A shared set of spoken and written symbols.
Languages
A set of shared rules defining acceptable and unacceptable social behavior in a cultural community.
Norms
The shared perspectives and moral standards
Values
True or False: Norms shape values.
False
True or False: Values shape norms.
True
The material objects a society produces
Artifacts
True or False: Artifacts are exclusively shared by certain people in a cultural community.
False, ALL
