Culture Flashcards
Culture is three things:
Learned, Innovative, Restraining
Culture is made up of (6)
belief, values, language, norms, behaviours, material artifacts
What does a mediated experience mean?
People don’t live in direct contact but through shared meanings provided by culture
What is a breaching experiment?
deliberately disrupting social norms
What is cultural relativism?
Assessing a culture by its own standards not yours
What is a value?
A standard for what is true, good, just, or beautiful
What are the Canadian values? (7)
Equality & Fairness Consultation & Dialogue Accommodation & Tolerance Diversity Compassion & generosity Attachment to Natural beauty World image of freedom peace, non-violence
What are sanctions?
Form of social control to encourage conformity
What are folkways?
Informal norms not strictly enforced
What are mores?
Norms that represent a community’s most important values
What is the Sapir-Wolf Hypothesis?
The structure of a language impacts speaker’s perception of experience
What are some examples of a subculture?
Biker gangs, ethnic groups, AA, churches, clubs
What is counter culture?
Reject larger culture’s norms
What is diffusion?
The spread of material and nonmaterial culture
