Chapter 2 Flashcards
Three components of culture
Idea activities artifacts
Culture is
Leanred Shared seymbolic
culture can acquire any persons culture
learned
endowed with a critical mind
Shared
manifested in language
Synbolics
shared by groups of people and depend much for validity
Cultural behavior
not genetically or biologically determined
Behavioral patterns
theories of reciprocity complementary and mutuality of responses
Social interaction
different kinds of cultural expression and acted into different purposes
Various behaviors
imitating oacts of ithers
Social learning
soul of culture
Language
gene like in producing behavior
Words
the store house of culture
capturing, communicating, discussing,changing, passing
Language family
Afroasiatic, Austronrsian, Indo european, Niger congo, Sino-Tiberian
study and analysis of language
Linguistic
not just learning
Linguistic
attempt to reconstruct the earlier language forms
Linguist
symbols or non verbal forms
Human behavior
uses their own values by measuring others folkways and values
Ethnocentrism
tendency to evaluate other cultures as inferior
Ethnocentrism
Ability to fully understandn another cukturr largely
Cuktural Relativism
belief that products of a society is inferior to where you are from
Xenocentrism
cultural pride and identity, most important in nation building
Collectivism
develop solidatity of yhe group but restricts between groups
Ethno