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Question 1

One sentence definition of culture

Answer 1

Culture refers to the knowledge, customs, and values of a group of people gathered and passed on through generations.

Question 1

Why do symbols represent the outer layer of culture?

Answer 1

Symbols represent the outer layer of culture because new symbols regularly develop and old ones disappear. Symbols from a particular group are also routinely copied by other people.

Question 2

What role do heroes play in a culture?

Answer 2

Heroes are people or characters who exhibit characteristics highly valued in a culture and often serve as models for behavior.

Question 3

What is the core of a culture? Why is it difficult to study>

Answer 3

The core of a culture is the values it holds closest. The core is difficult to study since most values are unconscious to those who carry them and can only be inferred through the way people act during different circumstances.

Question 4

What does the diagram suggest is the relationship of cultural practices to the culture as a whole?

Answer 4

Cultural practices are physical manifestations or actions performed by a group of people that embody the properties of that culture.

Question 5

Human activities analyzed by the social sciences

Answer 5

Communication, Transportation, Protecting and conserving, Providing education, Making tools, Providing recreation, Organizing and governing, Moral Ethical Religious behavior, Aesthetic needs, Producing Exchanging Distributing

Question 6

Cultural relativism

Answer 6

Cultural relativism is the idea that a society’s customs and ideas should be described with objectivity and understood while keeping in mind that society’s problems and opportunities.

Question 7

Noble Savage

Answer 7

A person belonging to a primitive culture uncorrupted by contact with society.

Question 8

Ethnocentrism

Answer 8

Ethnocentrism is when people use their culture’s norms to make generalizations about other peoples’ cultures and norms.