Sociology - Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Culture (2)

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No way of life is “natural” to humanity, even though most people around the world view their behavior as that way

The values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that together form a person’s way of life

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What does culture do?

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Shapes what we do and helps form our personalities

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Difference between culture, nation, and society? (3)

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Culture- shared way of life

Nation- political entity (a territory with designated borders. Ex: U.S., Canada)

Society- people who interact in a define territory and share a culture

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How many languages are there globally?

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7,000 languages, yet they are declining

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Unlike other creatures, humans try to give the world

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Meaning

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Example of someone using a symbol in an unconventional way?

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Someone burning the U.S. Flag during a political demonstration

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What are two possible meanings of a fur coat? (2)

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A prized symbol of success or the inhumane treatment of animals

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Every society transmits culture through speech, a process sociologists call?

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The “oral cultural tradition”

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Who is kanzi? What makes kanzi special? (2)

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A 23 year old chimp

He could learn language by listening and observing

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Outline the 10 key values of the U.S. as identified by Robin Williams (10)

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  1. Equal opportunity
  2. Achievement and success
  3. Material comfort
  4. Activity and work
  5. Practicality and efficiency
  6. Progress
  7. Science
  8. Democracy and free enterprise
  9. Freedom
  10. Racism and group superiority
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Most important… In a culture apply everywhere and at all times

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Norms

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What are 3 ways that today’s world is a global culture? (3)

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  1. The global economy: the flow of goods
  2. Global communications: flow of information
  3. Global migration: the flow of people
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Sociologists claim that the large number of cultural universals reflects…

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The fact that all humans are members of a single biological species

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Nonmaterial culture

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The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society

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Material culture

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The tangible things created by members of a society

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Culture shock

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Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life

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Symbols

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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

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Language

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A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another

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Cultural transmission

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The process by which one generation passes culture to the next generation

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Values

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Culturally defined standards by which people assess desirability, goodness, and beauty

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Norms

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Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior or its members

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Mores

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Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance

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Folkways

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Norms for routine or casual interaction

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Social control

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Attempts by society to regulate people’s thought and behavior

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Technology

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Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings

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High culture

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Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite

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Popular culture

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Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population

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Subculture

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Cultural patterns that are set apart some segment of a society’s population

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Eurocentrism

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The dominance of European (especially english) cultural patterns

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Afrocentrism

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The dominance of African cultural patterns

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Cultural integration

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The close relationships among various elements of a cultural system

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Counterculture

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Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society

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Cultural lag

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Fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting cultural system

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Ethnocentrism

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The practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture

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Cultural relativism

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The practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards

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Cultural universals

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Traits that are part of every known culture

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Sociobiology

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A theoretical paradigm that explores ways in which biology affects how we create culture