What Makes Culture

Question 1

Cultural diversity

Answer 1

The idea that what is normal in one culture is diffrent in another

Question 2

Cultural universal

Answer 2

Social behaviour can be found in all cultures

Question 3

Morals

Answer 3

Idea about what behaviour are right and wrong

Question 4

Norms

Answer 4

Expected behaviour in a particular situation or culture/social rules for correct behaviour e.g knife and fork

Question 5

Role models

Answer 5

Someone who is respected and looked up to by others

Question 6

Roles

Answer 6

Expected behaviour or part played by someone in a particular situation

Question 7

Status

Answer 7

Respect to others gives to you in society

Question 8

Identity

Answer 8

How we see our selves and how others see us

Question 9

What makes culture

Answer 9

A culture contains
•food
•language
•clothing
•religion
•music
•history
•art
•norms and values

Question 10

How are norms and values transmitted.
SCHOOL

Answer 10

Durkham saw one of the main structures of education as passing on society’s,norms and values

Question 11

Formal social control

Answer 11

Disciplines within lessons by staff

Question 12

Informal social control

Answer 12

Peer group pressure

Question 13

Family

Answer 13

•Children imitate family members
•children are punished for socially deviant behaviour
•Murdock believes that the family passed on society’s norms and values

Question 14

Peer group

Answer 14

The peer group might have there own norms and values so it could influence its members
E.g choices of clothes, music and behaviour
The individual conforms to fit in

Question 15

How Are norms learnt through primary socialisation

Answer 15

The family is the main source of primary socialisation.
-gender norms are learnt in the family through canalisation and manipulation

Question 16

Values

Answer 16

Values refer to what is considered worthwhile and worth working to achieve in a society

Question 17

Values 2.

Answer 17

Norms and values are learnt and shared and they influence how we behave

Question 18

What does Ralph Linton belive

Answer 18

He believes that achieved status is learnt through education and work Is biased on merit.
E.g being a professional athlete or the manager of a large company

Question 19

Nature theory

Answer 19

-our behaviour is natural
-some of our behaviour is genetic
-twins often share the same characteristics
-scientists suggest we inherit behaviour from our parents e.g the Jim twins

Question 20

Nurture theory

Answer 20

-behaviour is learnt through agencies of socialisation e.g the family and is a result of our up bringing
-society, down to our social environment
-feral children do not naturally have the basic skills and therefore must be taught them
-some people kill themselves Wich goes against the idea of the idea that we have an innate desire to keep our selves alive

Question 21

What does cultural diversity support

Answer 21

NUTURE THEORY
Why?-because of the range of different cultures that exists e.g the foods that people eat.

Question 22

Socialisation

Answer 22

The process of learning the expected rules and norms and values of a culture

Question 23

What’s primary socialisation

Answer 23

The family is a child first social group so it’s where the early learning takes place.
It’s where we are taught attitudes, skills,knowledge,norms and values by are family
-where children learn to behave

Question 24

Why is it important

Answer 24

It teaches children how to behave and what is acceptable
Without socialisation there would be chaos in society
Teaches children what is expected of them
Feral children is an example that without primary socialisation we find it hard to fit in .

Question 25

What are the agencies of socialisation

Answer 25

The people or groups that play a part in the processes of socialisation and help teach us norms and values
E.g education,work,media,peers,religion