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Society and Culture Flashcards

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Consists of people who share a territory, who interacts with each other and who share a culture
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Society

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Study the way people learn about their own society’s cultures and how they discover their place within those cultures

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Sociologists

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Consists of 2 or more people who interact and identify with one another

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Social groups

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Group seeking to become part of a pluralistic society often have to give up many of their original traditions to fit in a process

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Assimilation

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Types of Society and Culture

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Society
Sociologists
Social Groups
Assimilation

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Survive by hunting game and gathering edible plants

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Hunting and Gathering Societies

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Hand tools are used to tend crops

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Horticultural society

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Relies on domestication and breeding of animals for food

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Pastoral Society

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The invention of the plow during the horticultural and pastoral societies

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Second Social Revolution

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Tend crops with an animal harnessed plow. The use of animals to pull a plow

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Agricultural or Agrarian Society

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Uses advanced sources of energy, rather than humans and animals to run a large machinery

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Industrial Society

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Has developed over the past few decades, features an economy based on services and technology, not production

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Post Industrial Society

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Individual achievement is valued over kinship ties, and people often feel isolated from one another

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Mass society

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Types of society

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Hunting and Gathering Societies
Horticultural Society
Pastoral Society
Second Social Revolution
Agricultural and Agrarian Society
Industrial Society
Post-Industrial Society
Mass Society

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A guideline or expectation for behavior

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Norms

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Norm for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of convenience or tradition

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Folkways

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Based on morality, on definitions of right and wrong. People feel strongly about them, violating a more usually results to disapproval

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More

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Written down and enforced by an official agency. Violating results to a punishment

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Law

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Implicit prohibition on something based on a cultural sense that is excessively repulsive or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people

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Taboo

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Categories of Norms

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Folkway
More
Law
Taboo

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Results from a competing of demands of two or more roles that vie for our time and energy

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Role Conflict

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The position a person occupies in a particular setting

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Status

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The set of norms, values, behaviors, and personality characteristics attached to a status

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Roles

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Everything made, learned or shared by the members of the society, including values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects

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Culture

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Concrete, visible parts of a culture, such as, food, clothing, cars, weapons, and buildings

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Material Culture

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Intangible aspects of culture such as values and beliefs

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Non-material Culture

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Culturally approved concepts about what is right and wrong, desirable or undesirable

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Value

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Specific ideas people feel to be true

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Beliefs

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Types of Status and roles

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Role conflict
Status
Roles
Culture
*Material Culture
*Non-material Culture
Value
Beliefs

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Group whose members are in the majority or who wield more power than other groups

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Dominant Culture

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Group that lives differently from, but not opposed to the dominant culture

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Subculture

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A subculture that opposes the dominant culture

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Counter culture

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Hierarchy of culture

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Dominant Culture
Subculture
Counter Culture

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Tendency to judge another culture by the standards of one’s own culture

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Ethnocentrism

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Opposite of ethnocentrism. it is the examination of a cultural trait within the context of that culture

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Cultural relativism

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Surprise, disorientation, and fear people can experience when they encounter a new culture

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Culture shock

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The notion that takes time to catch up with technologicalinnovations

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Culture Lag

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Process whereby an aspect of culture spreads throughout a culture or from one culture to another

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Cultural Diffusion

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