CULTURE B1 Flashcards
(23 cards)
Process of adapting to a new culture. Awareness of the differences in values and customs. Associated with feelings of anxiety, confusion, and homesickness
CULTURE SHOCK
The attitude that one’s own group l, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to others.
Ethnocentrism
One has a preference for a foreign culture’s goods, ideas, styles, and traditions over their own culture.
Xenocentrism
Radical groups of people reject established social values and practices and who embrace a mode of life opposed to the mainstream.
Counterculture
A cultural group within a larger group.
Distinct values, norms, beliefs
Subculture
Father of American Anthropology who created Cultural Relativism
Frank Boas
Tries not to judge other culture based upon your own culture’s values.
Cultural Relativism
Emphasizes a universal truth that should be defended regardless of cultural differences
Universalism
Socially approaved and traditional norms or standards of everyday behavior.
Folkways
Considered to be morally, socially, and religiously unacceptable.
Taboos
Components of cultures
-Symbols
-Language
-Norms
-Values
-Artifact
Two types of culture
Material and Non- material
What is a material culture?
Tangible: tools, food, architecture, art.
What is non- material culture
Intangible: beliefs, customs, norms, and languange.
Cultural Variability
The dieffences in social behaviors, beliefs, customs, and societies.
Different solutions used by different people to solve problems of existence.
Cultural Relativity
Acknowledgement that there are different cultures.
Human Ingenuity
Ability of adapting and expanding culture.
“The complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, custom, and any other capabilities acquired by man as a memeber of society”
Culture accorxing to Edward Taylor
SLNVA stands for?
Symbols
Language
Norms
Values
Artifacts
Culture is…….
-Learned
- transmitted through language
- a social product
- source of gratification
- a distinct way of life
- sanction and control
- a pattern of behavior
What cultural Relativism
There is no Superior Culture
To think, feel or act in a way that is cultural determined.
Orientation of culture
Modes of acquiring culture:
-Imitation
-Teaching
• Formal • Informal
-Conditioning
• positive •Negative
