Chapter 3

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

The shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real-life problems

Question 2

What are symbols?

Answer 2

Abstract or concrete, verbal or non-verbal, must be shared in order to be culturally meaningful.

Question 3

High Culture

Answer 3

Culture consumed by upper class

Question 4

Popular Culture

Answer 4

Culture consumed by all classes

Question 5

5 components of culture

Answer 5

Symbols, Language, Values, Beliefs, Norms

Question 6

Folkways

Answer 6

least important, least severe punishment, social preferences.

Question 7

Mores

Answer 7

core norms people believe are essential for the survival of their group or their society

Question 8

Taboos

Answer 8

strongest norms, when violated causes revulsion in the community and punishment is severe

Question 9

laws

Answer 9

norms enforced by the state

Question 10

3 types of cultural change

Answer 10

Invention, Discovery, Diffusion

Question 11

Ethnocentrism

Answer 11

tendency for people to judge other cultures exclusively by the standards of their own