Chapter 2 - Culture Flashcards
(26 cards)
Material Culture
Physical things of a culture like jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, machines, hairstyles, and clothing.
Culture
The language, beliefs, values, norms, and behaviors of an area.
Non-Material Culture
A group’s way of thinking – values, beliefs, other assumptions about the world.
Ethnocentrocism
The tendency to use our own group’s way of doing things as a yardstick for judging others.
Culture Relativism
All cultures are equally valid - there is no truth.
Symbolic Culture
Non material Culture.
Gestures
Using movements of the the body to communicate with others.
Language
Symbols that can be combined an infinite amount of ways in order to communicate.
Mores
Norms that are essential to our core values and insist upon conformity.
Folkways
Norms that are not strictly enforced.
Taboo
A norm so strongly ingrained that even the thought of violation is greeted with revulsion.
Counter Culture
A culture with values and norms that place it at odds with the dominant culture.
Sub Culture
A world within the larger world of the dominant culture.
Value Contradictions
When a culture institutes a rule that contradicts it’s values.
Culture Lag
A group’s material culture changes first with its non material culture lagging behind.
Cultural Diffusion
A process where a group is most open to changes in their their technology.
Culture Leveling
When cultures become similar to each other.
Ideal Culture
The values and ways of a culture worth aspiring to.
Real Culture
Norms and values people actually follow.
Norms
Expectations that develop from a culture’s values.
Sanctions
The reactions people receive for breaking or following norms.
Pluralristic Society
A society made up of many cultures.
Value Clusters
Values that combine to to form a larger whole.
Technology
Tools
