UCSP 4th Flashcards
Refers to a group of people sharing a common culture
Society
Characterized by a territorially localized population
Human society
is “the complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society
Culture
an anthropologist, said that there are three components that go together that make up culture
John Honigmann
What are the three components that go together that make up culture
Ideas
Activities
Artifacts
This are thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and rules
Ideas
It is what people do as opposed to what they believe or feel
Activities
Are man-made products of ideas and activities
Artifacts
Said that culture is learned, shared, and symbolic. It is learned from parents, peers, teachers, leaders and other
Taylor
Is not biological or generic
is also shared
is symbolic
culture
Cultural Behavior
allows people to fit into and adapt to their respective environments
Chinese
Has “middle kingdom complex” peoples feeling of superiority anchored.
Have strong feelings that their customs are the more proper and decent compared to other societies.
Primordial societies
Though sometimes fails the body but considers good for the soul, orders the cosmos, and explains the place of Hindu believers in the universe
Religion
The view that one’s group is superior compared to another
ethnocentrism
