Chapter 2

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Ways of thinking, ways of acting, and the material objects that together form peoples way of life

Question 2

Culture Shock

Answer 2

Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life

Question 3

Society

Answer 3

People who interact in a defined territory and share a culture

Question 4

Symbol

Answer 4

Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

Question 5

Language

Answer 5

A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another

Question 6

Cultural Transmission

Answer 6

The process by which one generation passes culture to the next

Question 7

Values

Answer 7

Cultural defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living

Question 8

Beliefs

Answer 8

Specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be true

Question 9

Norms

Answer 9

Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviour of its members

Question 10

Folkways

Answer 10

Norms for routine/casual interaction

Question 11

Mores

Answer 11

Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance

Question 12

Laws

Answer 12

Systems of rules recognized and enforced by governing institutions

Question 13

Social Control

Answer 13

Attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behaviours

Question 14

Technology

Answer 14

Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surrounding

Hunting and gathering/Horticulture/Pastoralism/ Agriculture/Industry/Post-industrialism

Question 15

High Culture

Answer 15

Cultural patterns that distinguish a society’s elite

Question 16

Popular Culture

Answer 16

Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society’s population

Question 17

Subculture

Answer 17

Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population

Question 18

Multiculturalism

Answer 18

Perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of Canada and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions

Question 19

Eurocentrism

Answer 19

Dominant of European (esp. English) cultural patterns

Question 20

Counterculture

Answer 20

Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society

Question 21

Cultural Integration

Answer 21

Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system

Question 22

Cultural Lag

Answer 22

The fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system

Question 23

Ethnocentrism

Answer 23

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture

Question 24

Cultural Relativism

Answer 24

The practice of judging a culture by its own standards

Question 25

Cultural Universals

Answer 25

Traits that are part of every known culture

Family, funeral rites