Society and Culture Q1

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comes from the latin root socius,

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Society

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“companion” or “being with others.”

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Socius

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consists of people who share a territory,

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Society

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study the way people learn about their
own society’s cultures

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Sociologist

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is a group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.

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Society

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consist of two or more people who interact and identify with one another.

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Social Groups

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Groups seeking to become part of a pluralistic society often have to give up many of their original traditions

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Assimilation

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survive by hunting game and gathering edible plants. Until about 12,000 years ago

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Hunting And Gathering Societies

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hand tools are used to tend
crops. 10,000–12,000 yrs; instruments; sticks or hoe-like instruments

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Horticultural Society

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domestication and breeding of animals for food

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Pastoral Society

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invention of the plow, led to the establishment of agricultural societies

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Second Social Revolution

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tend crops with an animal harnessed to plow

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Agricultural or Agrariansociety

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uses advanced sources of energy to run large machinery; industrialization began in the mid-1700s

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Industrial Society

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that has developed over the past few decades; features an economy based on services and technology

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Postindustrial Society

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individual achievement is valued over kinship ties, and people often feel isolated

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Mass Society

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expectations; guideline or an exception for behavior

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Norms

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4 Categories of Norms

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1. Folkway
2. More
3. Law
4. Taboo

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

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Folkway

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based on morality or right & wrong

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More

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is a norm that is written down and enforced
by an official agency.

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Law

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is an implicit prohibition on something
based on a cultural sense that it is excessively
repulsive

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Taboo

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results from the competing demands
of two or more roles that vie for our time and
energy.

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Role Conflict

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describes the position a
person occupies in a particular setting.

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Status

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is the set of norms,
values, behaviors, and personality characteristics
attached to a status.

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Role

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is everything made, learned, or shared by the members of a society, including values, beliefs, behaviors, and material objects.

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Culture

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consists of the concrete, visible parts of a culture, such as food, clothing, cars, weapons, and buildings

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Material Culture

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consists of the intangible aspects of a culture, such as values and beliefs

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Nonmaterial Culture

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consists of concepts and ideas that shape who we are and make us different from members of other societies.

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Nonmaterial Culture

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is a culturally approved concept about what is right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.

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Value

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are a culture’s principles about how things should be and differ greatly from society to society.

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Value

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are specific ideas that people feel to be true.

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Beliefs

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majority or who wield more power than other groups.

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Dominant Culture

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is a group that lives differently; culture within a culture (ex: Jews)

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Subculture

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subculture that opposes the dominant culture (ex: Hippies)

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Counterculture

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judge another culture by the standards of one's own culture

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Ethnocentrism

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opposite of ethnocentrism; examination of a culture trait

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Cultural Relativism

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jarring; is the surprise, disorientation, and fear people can experience when they encounter a new culture.

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Culture Shock

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is the most difference between material culture and non material culture

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Culture Lag

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is the 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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are intricately related.

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Culture and society

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consists of the “objects” of a society,

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Culture

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consists of the people who share a common culture.

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Society