Lesson 6: Culture

Question 1

___, ___, ___, and ___ or even ___ objects that are passed from one generation to the next

Answer 1

Language, beliefs, values, norms, material

Question 2

Language, beliefs, values, and norms or even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next

Answer 2

Culture

Question 3

Who said that language, beliefs, values, and norms or even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next is culture?

Answer 3

James Henslin

Question 4

When did Henslin say that language, beliefs, values, and norms or even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next is culture?

Answer 4

2006

Question 5

True or False: Culture is only non-tangible.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Abstract values, beliefs, and perceptions of the world that lies beyond people’s behavior and that are reflected by their behavior

Answer 6

Culture

Question 7

___ ___, ___, and ___ of the world that lies beyond people’s ___ and that are reflected by their ___

Answer 7

Abstract, values, beliefs, perceptions, behavior, behavior

Question 8

Who said that abstract values, beliefs, and perceptions of the world that lies beyond people’s behavior and that are reflected by their behavior is culture?

Answer 8

William Haviland

Question 9

When did Haviland say that abstract values, beliefs, and perceptions of the world that lies beyond people’s behavior and that are reflected by their behavior is culture?

Answer 9

1999

Question 10

True or False: Culture is objective.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Jewelry, clothing, art, weapons, etc.

Answer 11

Material culture

Question 12

Beliefs, norms, values

Answer 12

Non-material culture

Question 13

Culture that is also referred to as non-material culture

Answer 13

Symbolic culture

Question 14

Where people attach meaning and use to communicate

Answer 14

Symbol

Question 15

Consists of symbols that people use and attach meaning

Answer 15

Symbolic culture

Question 16

Even without ___, ___ has meaning and action

Answer 16

message, symbol

Question 17

Movement of the body to communicate

Answer 17

Gestures

Question 18

Shorthand ways to convey messages without using words

Answer 18

Gesture

Question 19

True or False: Gesture is universal.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Allows human experiences to be cumulative

Answer 20

Language

Question 21

Provides a social and shared past and future

Answer 21

Language

Question 22

Allows sharing of feelings and complex behavior

Answer 22

Language

Question 23

The heart of culture

Answer 23

Language

Question 24

When was Sapir and Whorf’s hypothesis on Language and Perception?

Answer 24

1930s

Question 25

Who were the 2 sociologists concluded a hypothesis on language and perception?

Answer 25

— Edward Sapir — Benjamin Whorf

Question 26

Sapir and Whorf discovered ___ of the ___ ___ had no words to distinguish ___, ___, ___

Answer 26

Hopi Indians, Southwestern, United States, past, present, future

Question 27

Modified True or False: Sapir and 1) Weber discovered 2) Asians of the 3) Southwestern Thailand had no words to distinguish 4) past, present, and future.

Answer 27

1) Whorf 2) Hopi Indians 3) Southwestern United States 4) True

Question 28

True or False: Sapir and Whorf concluded that words might be more than labels that people attach to things.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Sapir and Whorf said that ___ not only expresses our ___ and ___, but it also shapes the way we ___ and ___

Answer 29

language, thoughts, perceptions, think, perceive

Question 30

When did Sapir and Whorf said that language not only expresses our thoughts and perceptions, but it also shapes the way we think and perceive

Answer 30

— Sapir (1949) — Whorf (1956)

Question 31

True or False: Sapir and Whorf indicates that rather than objects and events forcing themselves into our consciousness, it is our language that determines our consciousness, and hence our perception of objects and events.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False: Sapir and Whorf indicates that rather than objects and events forcing themselves into our consciousness, it is our language that determines our consciousness, and hence our perception of objects and events.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Sapir and Whorf indicates that rather than ___ and ___ forcing themselves into our ___, it is our ___ that determines our consciousness, and hence our ___ of ___ and ___.

Answer 33

objects, events, consciousness, language, percetion, objects, events

Question 34

Standards people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, ugly or beautiful

Answer 34

Values

Question 35

Varies in societies and time

Answer 35

Values

Question 36

Varies in place

Answer 36

Norms

Question 37

Expectations of “right” behavior

Answer 37

Norms

Question 38

Expressions of approval for upholding norms or expressions of disapproval for violating them

Answer 38

Sanction

Question 39

Expressions of approval for upholding norms or expressions of disapproval for violating them

Answer 39

Sanction

Question 40

True or False: Sanctions are tangible or non-tangible.

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Norms not strictly enforced

Answer 41

Folkways

Question 42

Norms taken much more seriously and is essential to core values and conformity

Answer 42

Mores

Question 43

Strongly ingrained

Answer 43

Taboo

Question 44

What are the 3 elements of culture?

Answer 44

— Belief systems — Cultural values — Attitudes

Question 45

Folkways, folklores, mores, values, norms, etc.

Answer 45

Belief system

Question 46

Norms in a society like Filipinos are family oriented

Answer 46

Cultural values

Question 47

3 characteristics of culture

Answer 47

— Culture is shared — Culture is learned — Culture is dynamic and changing

Question 48

Regionalism of fellow Cebuanos

Answer 48

Attitudes

Question 49

the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture; a world within a world.

Answer 49

Subculture

Question 50

a group whose values, beliefs, norms, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader culture.

Answer 50

Counterculture

Question 51

the ideal values, norms and goals of a people

Answer 51

Ideal culture

Question 52

the norms and values that people actually follow

Answer 52

Real culture

Question 53

the spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another

Answer 53

Cultural diffusion

Question 54

a process in which cultures become similar to one another

Answer 54

Cultural leveling

Question 55

not all parts of a culture change at the same pace

Answer 55

Culture lag

Question 56

disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life

Answer 56

Culture shock

Question 57

To counter tendency to use our culture as standard to judge other cultures

Answer 57

Culture relativism

Question 58

Understanding culture in its own terms

Answer 58

Culture relativism

Question 59

Who asked the question of where we draw the line in culture relativism?

Answer 59

Robert Edgerton

Question 60

Who wrote Sick Societies?

Answer 60

Robert Edgerton

Question 61

When did Edgerton write Sick Societies?

Answer 61

1992

Question 62

___ suggested that we develop a ___ for evaluating ___ on their quality of life

Answer 62

Robert Edgerton, scale, cultures

Question 63

True or False: Cultural values that result in exploitation are superior to those that enhance people’s lives.

Answer 63

False

Question 64

Using our own group’s way of doing things as a yardstick for judging others

Answer 64

Ethnocentrism