chapter 2 Flashcards
(27 cards)
the use of one’s own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of others of another group is
ethnocentrism
the standards by which people define things as desirable or undesirable are
values
norms that are enforced with some emotionality are
mores
a norm that is held so strongly that its violation provokes disgust is a
taboo
the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis says that language creates ways of thinking adn
perceiving
people using their bodies to communicate is
gestures
that a society consists of and embraces the norms of many different groups is a description of
pluralistic culture
an expression of approval or disapproval for upholding or violating a norm is a
sanction
a statistical measure that is described by being the most frequently observed score is the
mode
the first definition in the dictionary corresponds to the part of the symbol we call
shared associations
tools and skills required to utilize them are
technology
according to Henslin, the first component of culture is
language
the US American value that includes getting ahead at work or school, especially by outdoing others is
achievement and success
when a society has not adopted or does not adopt a new technology, that’s called a
cultural lag
language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next is
culture
the disorientation that people experience when coming in contact with a fundamentally different culture is
culture shock
norms that are formally encoded are
law-norms
norms that aren’t strictly enforced with emotion are
folkways
the 3 measures of central tendency
median, mode, and mean
prof’s first element of culture:
symbol
what we think of something as a result of our own experiences
experimental association
something that stands for something else
symbol
the U.S. American value of democracy
americans refer to majority rule, to the right of everyone to express an opinion, and to representative govt
societies that didn’t have a previous technology to do something are more likely to adopt a new technological change
technological leap-frogging
