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midterm
sociology chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Society | A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside their area, and participate in a common culture |
| Mores | Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society |
| Formal Norms | A norm that has been written down and specifies strict punishment for violators. |
| Counter Culture | A subculture that deliberately opposes aspects of the larger culture. |
| Culture | The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviors. |
| Informal norms | A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
| norms | The established standards of behavior maintained by a society. |
| General customs and practices that are found in every culture are called? | Cultural Difussion |
| The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others is called ? | Ethnocentrism |
| An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture is called? | Language |
| Which of the following is argued by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? | Language procedes thought |
| Collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper, as well as bad, undesirable, and improper, are known as? | Folkways |
| A dominat ideology is? | a set of cultural beliefs that help to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests. |
| Culture lag is? | a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions. |
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