CH3-4 Exam terms

Question 1

Ethnography

Answer 1

Observational research often intensive and ove lengthy periods, that leads to an account of what people do and how they live

Question 2

Netnography

Answer 2

An ethnographic method in which the internet becomes the research site and what transpires there is the sociologist’s research interest

Question 3

Material Culture

Answer 3

All of the material objects that are reflections or manifestations of culture

Question 4

Symbolic Culture

Answer 4

Aspects of culture that exist in nonmaterial forms

Question 5

Consumer Culture

Answer 5

A culture in which the core ideas and material objects relate to consumption and in which consumption is a primary source of meaning in life

Question 6

Cultural Imperialism

Answer 6

the imposition of one culture, more or less consciously, on other cultures

Question 7

Cultural Relavitism

Answer 7

the idea that aspects of culture such as norms and values need to be understood within the context of a person’s own culture or that there are no universally accepted norms and values

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

the belief that one’s own group or culture-including its norms, values, customs, and so on is superior to, or better than others

Question 8

Sanction

Answer 8

The application of rewards positive or negative when norms are accepted or violated