Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes Chapter 6: Topic 3.1

Question 1

All of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Seen in a group’s actions, possessions, and influence on the landscape. Ex: in a large city, you may see people working in offices, factories, and stores, and living in high-rise apartments or suburban homes. You might observe them attending movies, concerts, or sporting events.

Answer 2

Visible Culture

Question 3

Culture guides people through shared belief systems, customs, and traditions. Culture is learned, in that it develops through experiences, and is not merely transmitted through genetics. Ex: developing a strong sense of competitiveness in school and business, they believe that hard work is key to success

Answer 3

Invisible Culture

Question 4

Visible and invisible elements of culture

Answer 4

Cultural Traits

Question 5

A series of interrelated traits. Ex: the process of steps and acceptable behaviors related to greeting a person in different cultures. A single cultural artifact, such as an automobile, may represent many different values, beliefs, behaviors, and traditions.

Answer 5

Cultural Complex

Question 6

Behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture. Ex: eating certain foods (pork, insects)

Answer 6

Taboos

Question 7

Is used to encompass all 3 cultural designations. All 3 types share the function of passing down long-held beliefs, values, and practices and are generally resistant to rapid changes in their culture.

Answer 7

Traditional Culture

Question 8

The beliefs and practices of small, homogenous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change

Answer 8

Folk Culture

Question 9

When members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands and typically possess unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language

Answer 9

Indigenous Culture

Question 10

Specifically refers to the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s. The process of intensified interaction among people, governments, and companies of different countries around the globe has had profound impacts on culture.

Answer 10

Globalization

Question 11

When cultural traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of businesses spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups. These often begin in urban areas and diffuse quickly through globalization processes such as the media and the Internet.

Answer 11

Popular Culture

Question 12

(Traditional Culture); Each traditional culture has its own customs and language that makes it distinct from other cultural groups. Yet, people within each group are usually homogeneous, or very similar to each other.

Answer 12

Horizontal diversity

Question 13

(Popular Culture); Modern urban societies are usually heterogeneous, or exhibiting differences, within the society and usually contain numerous multiethnic neighborhoods

Answer 13

Vertical diversity

Question 14

Consist of tangible things, or those that can be experienced by the senses. Ex: art, clothing, food, music, sports, and housing types

Answer 14

Artifacts/Material Culture

Question 15

Consists of intangible concepts, or those not having a physical presence. Ex: beliefs, values, practices, and aesthetics (pleasing in appearance) determine what a cultural group views as acceptable and desirable.

Answer 15

Mentifact/Nonmaterial Culture

Question 16

Ways people organize their society and relate to one another

Answer 16

Sociofacts