Sociology (Chapter 3)
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- Example of a material culture
- Cooking utensils
- Belief that one's group is superior to all other's is called?
- Ethnocentrism
- Components of culture?
- Physical characteristics, values, symbols
- Norms that do not have a moral significance attachted to them are called?
- Folkways
- Smallest unit of a culture
- Cultural trait
- Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations are called?
- Norms
- The combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole?
- Culture pattern
- Organization of written or spoken symbols into a standarized system?
- Language
- Prohibitions against killing people and stealing other people's property are examples of what?
- Mores
- Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable are called?
- Values
- A cluster of interrelated culture traits
- Culture complex
- What are some parts of positive santions?
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May include ribbons, badges, and medals.
First experienced within the family.
May include praise and cheers. - Examples of countercultures?
- Neo-Nazis
- A written rule of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
- Law
- Rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms?
- Santions
- Values are to beliefs as norms are?
- Behaviors
- Values believed to be norms are?
- Behaviors
- What is an example of Cultural Relativism?
- Indian prohibition against kiling cows.
- Common features of all societies?
- Culturela universals
- Examples of Formal Santions are?
- Imprisonment, fines, pay raises, awards
- A group that has its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture?
- Subculture
- The physical objects of a material culture?
- Artifacts
- What are Dr. Massey's three stages of programming? In proper order.
- 1. ___________ 2. ____________ 3.
- What are three sources of programming?
- School, Religion, Family, Friends
- What does it take for a value to change? According to Dr. Massey
- Death or Significant emotional event.
- When are our values completed and when are theyl locked in? Age?
- 10, 20
- What is language?
- Standardized system of written and verbal communication.
- What is linguistics?
- Study of language within the context of culture.