UCSP Quiz 2 Module 4-9 Flashcards
What are the 7 Characteristics of Culture?
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive
Shared and Contested
Socialization/Enculturation
Patterned
Integrated and At Times Unstable
Transmitted Through Socialization/Enculturation
Requires a Language and Other Forms of Communication
Characteristics of Culture. Means, Cultures Interact and Change.
Dynamic, Flexible and Adaptive
Characteristics of Culture. Interactions in one society to another and exchange of materials e.g. tools and furniture, and non-materials e.g. ideas and symbols.
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive
Characteristics of Culture. All culture change, if not they would have problems adjusting and adopting to changing environment.
Dynamic, Flexible, and Adaptive
Characteristics of Culture. We shared cultures with others, but that doesn’t mean that culture is homogenous.
Shared and Contested
Characteristics of Culture. It maybe challenge by the presence of other cultures (modernization, industrialization, and globalization)
Shared and Contested
Characteristics of Culture. Learning the norms of a culture. NOT biological, NOT inherited but learn as we interact in society.
Socialization/Enculturation
Socialization/Enculturation. Learning a culture is _____.
Unconscious
Socialization/Enculturation. The process of learning culture is known as __________.
Enculturation
Characteristics of Culture. Culture as a normative system has the capacity to define and control human behaviors.
Patterned
Characteristics of Culture. Sets a _____ in terms of what is appropriate or inappropriate. There are expectations on how one will think, feel, or behave.
Patterned
Characteristics of Culture. One must learn all of its part, not only a few. Various parts of a culture being interconnected or interlinked.
Integrated and At Times Unstable
Characteristics of Culture. Nagbabago (______) at nawawala (______) ang kultura.
Integrated (Because of Socialization) and At Times Unstable (Because it is Contested)
Characteristics of Culture. _____ through stories, language, rituals, and material symbols.
Transmitted Through Socialization/Enculturation
Characteristics of Culture. Need symbols and language to communicate with others in the society.
Requires a Language and Other Forms of Communication
Something that stands for something else. They ONLY have meaning when people in a culture agree on their usage.
Symbols
Symbols include:
Language, money, and art
What are the 6 Elements of Culture?
Beliefs, Values, Symbols, Language, Technology, Norms
Elements of Culture. Concepts or ideas that people believe is true in the environment.
Beliefs
Elements of Culture. Describe what is appropriate or inappropriate, good or bad.
Values
Elements of Culture. Use to understand each other verbal & non-verbal.
Symbols
Elements of Culture. Shared set of spoken & written symbols.
Language
Elements of Culture. Application of knowledge & equipment to ease the task of living and maintaining the environment.
Technology
_____ today will be ______ in the future.
Technology, Artifacts
______ to those who don’t understand it. _____ to those who do.
Symbols, Language
Elements of Culture. Specific rules or standards to guide appropriate behavior.
Norms
What are the 2 or 3 Classification of Culture?
Visible Culture, Invisible Culture, and Invisible Culture (cannot be completely described)
Classification of Culture. Visible Culture:
Language, Arts, Rituals, Customs, Traditions, Religions, Food, Dress, Institutions, Manners.
Classification of Culture. Invisible Culture:
Beliefs, Ideals, Norms, Roles, Concepts.
Classification of Culture. Invisible Culture (cannot be completely described):
Values, Desires, Assumptions, Attitudes, Tastes.
The ability to understand a culture on its own terms and not to make judgments using the standards of one’s own culture.
Cultural Relativism
The goal is to promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture.
Cultural Relativism
Thinking of your own culture is better than another culture.
Ethnocentrism
Some would simply call ethnocentrism as _______.
Cultural Ignorance
Comparing the culture of others using a universal human standard.
Etic Approach
Perspective of the studied group.
Emic Approach
Your culture > Others culture
Ethnocentrism/Ethnocentric
Others culture > Your Culture
Xenocentrism/Xenocentric
____________’s Structural Strain Theory
Robert K. Merton
Structural Strain Theory. Accepting the goals and the means of the society.
Conformity
Structural Strain Theory. Accepting the goals but does different means of achieving it.
Innovation
Structural Strain Theory. Declining the goals of the society but does acceptable means of the society.
Ritualism
Structural Strain Theory. Given up on the goals and means of the society.
Retreatism
Departing from the usual or accepted standards.
Deviance
Classification of Culture. Language
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Arts
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Rituals
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Customs
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Traditions
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Religion
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Food
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Dress
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Institutions
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Manners
Visible Culture
Classification of Culture. Beliefs
Invisible Culture
Classification of Culture. Ideals
Invisible Culture
Classification of Culture. Norms
Invisible Culture
Classification of Culture. Roles
Invisible Culture
Classification of Culture. Concepts
Invisible Culture
Classification of Culture. Values
Invisible Culture (Cannot Be Completely Described)
Classification of Culture. Desires
Invisible Culture (Cannot Be Completely Described)
Classification of Culture. Assumptions
Invisible Culture (Cannot Be Completely Described)
Classification of Culture. Attitudes
Invisible Culture (Cannot Be Completely Described)
Classification of Culture. Tastes
Invisible Culture (Cannot Be Completely Described)
Difference in social categories like race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, body size, experience, etc.
Diversity
Three most common/main type of discrimination.
Sexism, Racism, Classism
Prejudice or discrimination based on gender. It stems from stereotyping people because of staunch belief in gender roles.
Sexism
_______ people believe that a particular sex or particular gender is better than the others.
Sexist
Belief one’s race is better or superior to another race. Also that a person’s traits will automatically be determined by their biological characteristics.
Racism
_______ people believe that because of your skin color, your customs, your place of birth, your language, or any such characteristics is enough reason for you to be treated as if you were less than human.
Racist
The systematic oppression of subordinated class groups to advantage and strengthen the dominant class groups.
Classism
Systematic assignment of characteristics of worth and ability based on _______.
Social Class
It view the society that everything has a role and they need to do that for everything to work whether they realize it or not.
Structural Functionalism
Two functions in structural functionalism:
Manifest Function and Latent Function
INTENDED FUNCTION of social policies, processes, or actions that are consciously and deliberately designed to be beneficial in their effect on society.
Manifest Function
One that is NOT CONSCIOULSY INTENDED, but that, nonetheless, has a beneficial effect on society.
Latent Function
Founded Structural Functionalism
Emile Durkheim
The society has always 2 groups:
The Oppressed and The Oppressor
They are always fighting for resources such as money, power, goods, land, etc.
Conflict Theory
Conflict theory. It is just a cycle when the __________________________________.
The oppressed rise up and they now become the new oppressors.
Founded Conflict Theory
Karl Marx
People have shared experiences through symbols. And, the society has shared understanding of symbols.
Symbolic Interactionism
Are these symbols subject to change?
YES
Symbolic Interactionism. We give meaning to things based on _______.
Experiences.
Founded Symbolical Interactionism
George Herbert Mead