Bellwork vocab #2

Question 1

culture trait

Answer 1

individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.

Question 2

counter culture

Answer 2

group that rejects the values, norms and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns.

Question 3

culture universals

Answer 3

common features that are found in all human cultures.

Question 4

ethnocentrism

Answer 4

tendency to view ones own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups.

Question 5

material culture

Answer 5

physical objects created by human groups. Sociologists and anthropologists use the term artifacts to refer to the physical objects of material culture.

Question 6

symbols

Answer 6

anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it. Language, gestures, images, sounds, physical objects, events, and elements of the natural world can serve as symbols as long as people recognize that they convey a particular meaning.

Question 7

values

Answer 7

shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.