Ch.3 Cultural change

Question 1

Cultural integration

Answer 1

the process in which cultural elements are closely connected and mutually interdependent.

Question 2

technology

Answer 2

tools and the body of knowledge pertaining to their use that help accomplish social tasks.

Question 3

popular culture

Answer 3

Commercialized art and entertainment designed to attract a mass audience.

Question 4

cultural lag

Answer 4

the gap between the time an artifact is introduced and the time it is integrated into a culture’s value system.

Question 5

diffusion

Answer 5

the borrowing of cultural elements from one society by another.

Question 6

ethnocentrism

Answer 6

the tendency to evaluate one’s own culture as superior to others.

Question 7

cultural relativism

principle

Answer 7

the principle that all cultures have intrinsic worth and each must be evaluated and understood by its own standards.

Question 8

culture shock

Answer 8

experiences of alienation, depression, or loneliness when entering a culture vastly different from one’s own.