Unit 3: 6.1

Question 1

Ethnocentrism

Answer 1

The judgment of a culture from the outside looking in (comparing they cultural beliefs to the standards your own)
Examples: Believing your culture is superior

Question 2

Cultural Norms

Answer 2

Things that NORMALized throughout a CULTURE (shared standards / practices)w

Question 3

Traditional culture

Answer 3

long standing traditions passed down from generation to generation
Examples: Also known as folk culture

Question 4

Cultural Relativism

Answer 4

Looking at culture through the perspective of the people who practice it
Examples: Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes (relate to culture)

Question 5

Popular culture

Answer 5

Widespread quickly changing, trends within society
Examples: Converse, cargo pants, any 90’s trend “I come back stronger than a 90’s trend”

Question 6

Mentifacts

Answer 6

The central (center) of someones culture. The ideas and beliefs that have been hardly installed, not easily changed

Question 7

Sociofacts

Answer 7

Things that alter social behaviors
Examples: school, government, etc

Question 8

Artifacts

Answer 8

Buildings, clothing (physical objects that a culture creates)

Question 9

Cultural trait

Answer 9

A shared object / cultural practice (varies across regions)