Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Jokes, family, funeral rites are an example of what?

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Cultural universals

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2
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Travelers will feel euphoric and excited

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Honeymoon phase

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3
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Dominance of African cultural patterns

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Afrocentrism

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Hippies, Amish, and Hutterites are an example of what?

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Counterculture

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5
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Travelers begin to get frustrated with cultural differences

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Negotiation phase

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6
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Rights for women, minorities and the disabled

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Justice for all

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7
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The belief that others disapprove of your actions

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Shame

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8
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Knowing what you have done is wrong

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Guilt

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9
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Values, beliefs, behavior and objects that form a people’s way of life

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Culture

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10
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The difference between right and rude

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Folkways

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11
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The discomfort one feels upon returning home

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Reverse culture shock

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12
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The key to cultural transmission

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Language

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13
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Patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population

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Subculture

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14
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A political entity a territory with designed borders

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Nation

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15
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People succeed or fail based upon the amount of effort they put forth

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Work ethic

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16
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Democracy, republic, and zero are examples of what

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Nonmaterial culture

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17
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Acceptance of a wide variety of views and traditions

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Tolerance

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18
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Travelers begin to evaluate their old ways with their new ones

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Cultural balance phase

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19
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Informed participation in government is the key to democracy

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Citizenship

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20
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When the odd becomes the familiar

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Integration phase

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21
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The belief that your culture dominates

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Ethnocentrism

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22
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Chop sticks, blow gun, and robes are and example of what

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Material culture

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23
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Dominance of European cultural patterns

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Eurocentrism

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24
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Self is greater than the group

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Individualism

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Describes how we should behave
Prescriptive
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Culture that is accessible to everyone
Popular culture
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Patterns that distinguish a society's elite
High culture
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The difference between right and wrong
Mores
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What is counterculture
Refers to cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted with in a society.
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What's is ideology
Beliefs or ideas that justify some social, moral, religious, economic, or political interests held by a social group or by society, spread by movements.
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What are social movements
Long term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change
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What is an invention
People use existing knowledge to create something new
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What is a discovery
People recognize new uses for existing elements in the world or begin to understand them in a new way
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What is diffusion
Process of spreading culture traits from one society to another, material or Nonmaterial
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What is cultural lag
The fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system (human rights, religion, environmental causes)
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What is vested interests
Often times the majority is comfortable in the present (resist ideas that threaten society)
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What is cultural transmission
Process by which one generation passes culture to the next generation
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What is the Sapir-whorf thesis
People see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language
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What are values
Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living
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What are beliefs
Specific statements that people hold to be true
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Prescriptive norms
What you should do
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Proscriptive norms
What you should not do
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What is an artifact
Physical human creations that help define a culture (chopsticks vs fork and knife)
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What is technology
Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings
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What are norms
Rules that guide our everyday behavior
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What is internalization
Norms and folkways are already a part of personality
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What are sanctions
Reactions from people
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What is social control
Norms are enforced so society can run smoothly
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What are the top five American values
``` Individualism Work ethic Citizenship Justice for all Tolerance ```
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What is social conflict
Stresses the link between culture and inequality
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What is materialism
Holds a society's system of material production that effects culture (SOCIAL CONFLICT)
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What is critical review
Cultural systems do not address human needs equally allowing some people to dominate others (SOCIAL CONFLICT)
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What is social change
Capitalism leads to inequality which leads to change (SOCIAL CONFLICT)
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What is sociobiology
Theoretical approach that explores ways in which human biology affects hoe we create culture
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Who is Alfred Kinsly
Applied Darwins theory to human mating (SOCIOBIOLOGY)
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What is Darwins theory
Living organisms change over long time periods-natural selection-(SOCIOBIOLOGY)
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What is idealism
Considers values the core of a culture (STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONAL)
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What is critical review
Shows how culture operates to meet human needs, ignores diversity (STRUCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL)
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What are cultural universals and examples
Traits that are part of every known culture (jokes, family)