Lesson 4 - Aspects of Culture

Question 1

The people’s way of life

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

A complex whole, which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, and everything a person learns as a member of the society

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

Explain the rationale behind “complex whole”

Answer 3

culture cannot be simply broken down into a set of attributes; understanding a part can only be achieved in relation to the other parts of the system

Question 4

This explanation was stated by who?

Answer 4

Edward B. Tyler

Question 5

What are some examples of culture?

Answer 5

Knowledge, music, methods, manners, Language, religion, techniques, customs, jokes food, beliefs, arts, morals, clothes, drama, etc.

Question 6

What the aspects of culture?

Answer 6

Dynamic ,flexible and adaptive

Shared and contested

Learned through socialization or enculturation

Transmitted through socialization / enculturations

Patterned of social interactions

Integrated and at times unstable

Requires language and other forms of communication.

Question 7

‘WHAT’ of culture

Answer 7

Actions, artifacts, language, behavior,

Question 8

‘HOW’ of culture

Answer 8

identifies the processes that guarantee the transmission and dissemination of the contents

Question 9

‘WHY’ of culture

Answer 9

pinpoints the reason why individuals comply and the mechanisms that facilitate the performance of expected behavior

Question 10

gradual acquisition of the norms of a culture or society by a person or another group

Answer 10

ENCULTURATION

keyword: acquisition - obtaining - gaining
ex. the third culture shock

Question 11

starts with exposure to another culture and duration and extent of exposure account to the quality of resulting enculturation

Answer 11

ENCULTURATION

Question 12

the way of life; design for living

Answer 12

Culture

Question 13

“A culture is a historically derived system of explicit and implicit design for living, which tends to be shared by all for specially designed members of a group” is stated by two people in the names of…

Answer 13

Kluckhohn and Kelly

Question 14

refers to similarities in words and actions which can be directly observed

Answer 14

Explicit Culture

Question 15

Exists in abstract forms which are not quite obvious

Answer 15

Implicit Culture

Question 16

Give the 4 functions of culture

Answer 16

Culture defines situations

Culture defines attitudes, values, and goals

Culture defines myths, legends, and the supernatural

Culture provides behaviour patterns

Question 17

a greek word that means “people, nation, or cultural grouping”

Answer 17

ethno

Question 18

a latin word that means “center”

Answer 18

centric

Question 19

refers to the tendency of society to place its own culture patterns at the center of things

Answer 19

ETHNOCENTRISM

keyword: center, superior

Question 20

process of comparing other cultural practices with those of one’s own and finding other cultural practices to be inferior

Answer 20

ETHNOCENTRISM

Question 21

the idea that all norms, beliefs, and values are dependent on their cultural context and should be treated as such

Answer 21

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

-a requirement regardless of cultural origin

Question 22

promotes greater appreciation of the cultures one encounters on the way

Answer 22

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

• good way to rehearse the norms and values of a society

Question 23

Two complementary reasons for appreciation of other cultures

Answer 23

Acquisition of sufficient knowledge about the culture in question

Direct exposure to other cultures

Question 24

tendency to use one’s own culture for judging the ways of other societies

Answer 24

ETHNOCENTRISM

Question 25

can lead to in-group loyalties and harmful discrimination

Answer 25

ETHNOCENTRISM

Question 26

understanding and analyzing how elements fit in other cultures without judgement

Answer 26

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Question 27

are component of culture that is produced based on specific purposes and aesthetic values

Answer 27

Tangible components

Question 28

may be associated with events and literary creations

Answer 28

Intangible Heritage or component

Question 29

tantamount to protection of heritage from external threats such as destruction, mutilation, and desecration through frivolous use

Answer 29

Preservation of heritage

Question 30

refers to preference of the foreign

Answer 30

XENOCENTRISM

Question 31

strong belief that one’s ideas are inferior

Answer 31

XENOCENTRISM

Question 32

fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange

Answer 32

XENOPHOBIA

Question 33

fear of losing identity, suspicion of other activities, aggression, and desire to eliminate other group’s activities

Answer 33

XENOPHOBIA

Question 34

includes all tangible and visible parts of culture

Answer 34

Material Culture

ex. clothing, foods, etc.

Question 35

includes all intangible and invisible parts of culture

Answer 35

Non Material Culture

ex. values, ideas, knowledge, etc.

Question 36

a process of learning your own culture

Answer 36

ENCULTURATION

Question 37

process of accommodating desirable traits from other culture

Answer 37

ACCULTURATION

Question 38

culture is lost and its traits are in the state of being forgotten

Answer 38

DECULTURATION