Ch 3 - Culture

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William Sumner

________ (1906) developed this concept → positive effects (creates in group loyalties.

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Sanctions

reactions people receive for following /breaking norms.

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Cultural Relativism

________: not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms.

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Norms

________: rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value.

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Culture

________ is the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us.

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Negative sanctions

________: disapproval for breaking a norm.

  • can lead to discrimination

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| Mores

________: norms which are essential to our core values.

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Non material culture

________: a groups beliefs, way of thinking, assumptions of the world, and their actions.

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| Folkways

________: norms that are not strictly enforced.

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Culture shock

________: the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different group of people and can no longer depend on their granted assumptions about life.

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Culture

language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, and even material objects that characterise a group and are passed down from generation to generation

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Material culture

material objects that distinguish a group of people

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Culture shock

the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different group of people and can no longer depend on their granted assumptions about life

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Cultural Relativism

not judging but we can try to understand a culture on its own terms

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Symbolic Culture

non-material culture

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Values

standards by which people assign a label to

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Norms

rules of behaviour that develop out of a groups value

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Positive sanctions

approval for following a norm

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| Folkways

norms that are not strictly enforced

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| Mores

norms which are essential to our core values

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|Taboo

a norm strongly ingrained that its violation is greeted with revulsion

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