Lesson 7.1

Question 1

A complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man as members of the society

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their
culture

Answer 2

material culture

Question 3

refers to the nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture

Answer 3

nonmaterial culture

Question 4

Elements of culture

Answer 4

artifacts
symbols
norms
rituals
values

Question 5

material objects that constitute a society’s material culture

Answer 5

artifacts

Question 6

things that stand for something
else and that often evoke various reactions
and emotions

Answer 6

symbols

Question 7

probably the most significant cultural symbol, it is the
method by which humans transmit culture from one generation to the next

Answer 7

language

Question 8

a system of communication used by a particular community or country

Answer 8

language

Question 9

people cannot easily understand concepts and objects
unless their language contains words for these items

Answer 9

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Question 10

standards or expectations for behaviors

Answer 10

norms

Question 11

divided into mores and laws and folkways and customs

Answer 11

norms

Question 12

established procedures and ceremonies that often mark transitions in the life
course

Answer 12

rituals

Question 13

reflect and transmit a culture’s norms and other elements from one generation to the next

Answer 13

rituals

Question 14

rituals that mark important stages in an individual’s life cycle

Answer 14

rites of passage

Question 15

culture’s standards for discerning what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable in society

Answer 15

values

Question 16

the belief that we should not judge any culture as superior or inferior to another culture

Answer 16

Cultural Relativism

Question 17

refers to the tendency to judge another culture’s beliefs and practices as inferior to our own

Answer 17

Ethnocentrism

Question 18

categorizes people based on shared distinctive physical and biological attributes such
as skin color or hair texture

Answer 18

race

Question 19

categorizes people based on their cultural expression, identification and shared
cultural characteristics such as language, ancestry, practices and beliefs.

Answer 19

Ethnicity

Question 19

A phenomenon in which some individuals or groups are defined and labeled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group

Answer 19

Othering

Question 20

A broad conceptual framework that can include prejudice, discrimination, and racism

Answer 20

Othering

Question 20

An “us vs. them” way of thinking

Answer 20

Othering