Culture Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society
Culture
Consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share?
Material culture
Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people’s behavior
Non-material culture
Customs and practices that occur across all societies
Cultural universals
What are the established rules of behavior or standard of conduct?
Norms
What are strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences in a particular culture?
Mores
What are the formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced that by formal sanctions?
Laws
What are mores that are so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable?
Taboos
What are the collectives ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirables or undesirable in a particular culture?
Values
Refers to the values and standards of behavior that people in a society profess to hold
Ideal values
Refers to the value and standards for behavior that people actually follow
Real Values
Category of people who share distinguishing attributes, beliefs values, and/or norms that set them apart in some significant manner from the dominant culture
Subculture
A group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyle
Counterculture
The disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own
Culture shock
The practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture
Ethnocentrism
The belief that behaviors and customs of any culture must be viewed and analyzed by the cultures own standards
Cultural relativism
Consists of classical music, opera, ballet, live theater, and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences, composed mainly of people from middle and upper classes
High culture
Consists of activities, products, and services that are appealed to primarily to members of the working and middle class.
Popular culture
The belief that language shapes views and culture of realities
Sapir-Wharf hypothesis
The imposed infusion of one nations culture on to another
Cultural imperialism
The gap between the technical development and the moral and legal institutions in a society
Cultural lag
