Chapter 2: Culture Flashcards
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The word cultivate suggests that people living together in a society actually grow their way of life overtime
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Culture refers to a society’s entire way of life
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The United States is the most multicultural nation of all
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Culture is the ways of thinking the ways of acting and the material objects that together form a peoples way of life
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Nonmaterial culture is the ideas created by members of a society, ideas there range from art to zen
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Material culture is the physical things created by members of a society everything from armchairs to zippers
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Cultural shock is the personal deterioration when experiencing in unfamiliar way of life
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No particular way of life is natural to humanity
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Behavior is guided by instinct, biological programming over which the species have no control
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Homo sapiens is Latin for intelligent person
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A nation is a political entity a territory with designated borders
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Society refers to people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture
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There are 382 languages spoken in the United States almost half of them are native language with the rest brought by immigrants from nations around the world
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Globally there are almost 7000 languages
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Although cultural is vary greatly, they all have common elements including symbols , language, values, and norms
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Human transform elements of the world into symbols
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A symbol is anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
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Language is the key to the world of culture, it is a system of symbols that allow people to communicate with one another
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The three most widely spoken languages are English, Chinese, and Spanish
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Language not only allows communication but is also the key to cultural transmission which is the process by which one generation passes cultural to the next
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Throughout human history every society has transmitted culture by using speech a process sociologist call the oral cultural tradition
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The Sapir-Whorf thesis holds that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language
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Values are culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living
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Values are broad principles that support beliefs, specific thoughts or ideas that people hold to be true
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