Unit 3

Cards (24)

  • Material Culture
    Physical items that people have created for use in specific cultures
  • Nonmaterial Cultures
    Non physical things produced by intellectual or spiritual development - stories, mythology
  • Cultural diffusion
    The spread of material and nonmaterial forms of culture from one social group to another
  • Ideology
    A set of ideas that support the needs and views of a group
  • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
    The assertion that language helps shape reality for those experiencing it
  • Folk ways
    Informal norms based on accepted traditions
  • Mores
    Institutionalized norms embedded in laws to help maintain social control
  • Taboos
    Mores that are considered wrong in and of themselves
  • Prescriptive norms
    Rules concerning behaviors we are expected to preform
  • Proscriptive norms
    Rules concerning behaviors we are expected to refrain from doing
  • Emblems
    Gestures with direct verbal equivalents
  • Ideal culture
    Cultural values a majority of people identify with in a given society
  • Real culture
    Practices engaged by the majority of people in a given society
  • Cultural relativism
    An ability to understand another culture in its own terms so that the culture is a coherent design foe living
  • Ethnocentrism
    The tendency to believe that your own cultural beliefs are superior and should be used as the standards that other cultures are compared to
  • Subculture
    A group that can be differentiated from mainstream culture by its divergent trait involving languages, norms, beliefs, and values
  • Counter Culture
    A type of culture that strongly opposes the cultural aspects of mainstream culture
  • Symbol
    An object, image, or event used to represent a concept
  • Cultural Omnivore
    Someone who consumes elements of both popularand high culture
  • Collective Co-science
    According to Durkheim, a recurring pattern bywhich people respect norms and follow them, because they haveinternalized them through early socialization practices
  • Cultural universals
    Common practices shared by all societies
  • Stratus Symbol
    Material indicators of wealth and prestige
  • Social Facts
    Observable social phenomena external toindividuals that exercise power over them
  • Hight Cultures
    Activities shared by the social elite