Chapter #3 Flashcards
Culture
The ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a peoples’s way of life.
Subculture
Groups of people that have their own traditions, customs and sometimes language.
Counter Culture
Oppose the culture of larger society.
Assimillation
The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.
Pluralism
A state in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equivocal social standing.
multiculturism
a perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the US and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions.
ethnocentrism
the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture.
cultural relativism
the practice of judging a culture by its own standards.
cultural lag
the facts that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system.
cultural universals
traits that are part of every known culture.
socialization
the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
What are three ways culture changes.
Damned if I knew!
