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sociology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anyone who feelsdisoriented, uncertain, out of place, even fearful, when immeised in an unfamiliar culture may be experiencing | Culture Shock |
| The term sociologist use to refer to a segment of society that shared distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs form the pattern of the larger society. | Subculture |
| Terroist groups are examples of ? | Counter cultures |
| cultural beliefs and practice4s that helpto maintain powerful social, economic,and political interests? | Dominant Ideology |
| Which view of culture became popular in sociology in the United States beginning in the 1950's | Functionalist Theory |
| Which theoretical perspective maintains that stability requires a consensus and the support of society's members? | Functionalist Theory |
| Health, love, and democracy are examples of | Values |
| Patterns of male dominance are reinforced in many societies around the world by | Folkways |
| In the U.S. we often formalize norms into | Laws |
| The statement "Respect your elders,"reflects | Norms |
| According to Sapir-whorf hypothesis | Language precedes thought |
| What term did William Ogburn introduce to refer to the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions | Culture Lag |
| The emergence of Starbucks in China represents what aspects of culture? | Globalization |
| What term do sociologist use to refer to the process by which a cultural item spreads form group to group or society to society? | Diffusion |
| The finding of the DNA molecule is an example of | Discovery |
| The process of introducing a new idea or objects to culture is known as. | Innovation |
| People's need for food, shelter and clothing are examples of what Murdock referred to as | Culture Universals |
| Culture is defined as | THe totality of learned, socially trasmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior |
| Argot | Specializedlanguage used by members of a group or subculture. |
| Billiangualism | The use of two or more languages in a particular setting such as the workplace or schoolroom treating each language as equally legitimate. |
| Counterculture | A subculture that deliberatley opposes certain aspects of larger culture |
| Cultural Relativism | The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture. |
| Cultural Universal | A common practice or belief found in every culture. |
| Discovery | The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality. |
| Folkway | A norm governing everyday behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern. |
| Formal Norm | A norm that has been written down and that specifies strict punishments for violators. |
| Informal Norm | A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
| Innovation | The process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture through discovery or invention. |
| Invention | The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before |
| Language | An abstract system of word meaning and symbols for all aspects of culture; includes gestures and other nonverbal communication |
| Law | Governmental social control |
| Material culture | The physical or techological aspects of our daily lives |
| Mores | Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. |
| Nonmaterial Culture | Ways of using material objects, as well as customs, belif, philosophies, governments and patterns of communication. |
| Norm | An established standard of behavior maintained by a society. |
| Sanction | A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. |
| Society | A fairly laage number of people who live in the same territoyr, are relatively indepent of peo;le outside it , and participate in a common culture. |
| Sociobiology | The systamatic study of how bilogy affects human social behavior |
| Subculture | A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of the larger society. |
| Technology | Cultureral information about how to use the material resources of the environment to staisfy human needs and desires. |
| Value | A collective conception of what is considered good, desirable, and proper or bad, undesirable, and improper in culture. |
| Evaluating the practices of other cultures on the basis of our own perspective is referred to as | Ethnocentrism |
| Sociobiologist apply this man's principle of natural selection to the study of social behavior | Charles Darwin |
| When one places a priority on understanding other cultures, rather than dismissing them as ' strange' or 'exotic' | Cultural relativism |
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