quiz 4

Question 1

folkways

Answer 1

general standards of behavior adhered to by a group, the ordinary customs of different group cultures. loosely defined and loosely followed. ex: way you dress

Question 2

mores

Answer 2

strict norms that control moral and ethical behavior. Mores provide strict codes of behavior, such as the injunctions, legal and religious, against killing others and committing adultery. often upheld through laws (formalized mores) violating mores can bring serious consequences

Question 3

taboos

Answer 3

behaviors that bring the most serious sanctions. example: women is radical islamist cultures going out w/o headcovering

Question 4

ethnomethodology

Answer 4

theoretical approach in sociology based on the idea that you can discover the normal social order through disrupting it

Question 5

dominant culture

Answer 5

culture of the most powerful group in a society. believed to be “The” culture of a society

Question 6

subculture

Answer 6

cultures of groups whose values and norms of behavior differ to some degree from those of the dominant culture

Question 7

culture

Answer 7

All of the knowledge & things that members of a society share. Shared way of life

Question 8

culture is made up of

Answer 8

material and nonmaterial culture

Question 9

material culture:

Answer 9

Tangible culture, ie food, musical instruments, architecture, clothing, hair styles, weaponry, jewelry, art…
The key element is TOOLS

Question 10

nonmaterial culture:

Answer 10

AKA symbolic culture, made up of language, values, traditions, heritage, religion, music, etc.
key element is LANGUAGE, bc language allows ppl to create and use symbols

Question 11

culture couldn’t exist w/o…

Answer 11

language

Question 12

which came first, material or nonmaterial culture

Answer 12

material culture. it shapes the nonmaterial

Question 13

Values

Answer 13

ideas abt whats good/bad, right/wrong

Question 14

norms

Answer 14

expectations of behavior

values influence norms, norms reflect values

Question 15

sanctions

Answer 15

Rewards (continue behavior) or punishments (stop your behavior), reinforce values and norms

Question 16

culture shock

Answer 16

when we’re exposed to culture unlike our own, feeling of disorientation.

Question 17

cultural relativism

Answer 17

Opposite of ethnocentrism. Trying to understand cultures on their own terms w/o bias

Question 18

ethnocentrism

Answer 18

Judging other cultures according to your own culture’s standards

Question 19

countercultures

Answer 19

subcultures created as a reaction against the values of the dominant culture. Members of the counterculture reject the dominant cultural values, often for political or moral reasons, and develop cultural practices that explicitly defy the norms and values of the dominant group. nonconformity to dom culture is hallmark

Question 20

cultural leveling

Answer 20

flattening out of culture, more same

Question 21

cultural diffusion

Answer 21

blending of cultures, something new is created