Quiz 3 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Culture
Values and norms of a given group
Material culture
Physical objects that a society creates that influences they life
Symbolic culture
Ideas and values about how the world should b
Cultural relativism
Understanding someone’s culture
Ethnocentrism
The principle of using one culture to evaluate another group
Dominant culture
Values, norms, and practices of the group that is most powerful
Hegemony
Ideas of the ruling class is on every epoch the ruling ideas
Subculture
A culture within a culture
Counterculture
A group within society that doesn’t like them
Sapir hypothesis
Language structures thought and that ways of looking at the world we embedded in language
Norms
Rules and guidelines about what is acceptable
Values
Ideas of what is desirable
Sanctions
A form of social control
Technological determinism
The notion that developments in material culture provide e primary driving forces behind social organization
Socialization
Process of learning and internalizing values
