All the shared products of human groups.

The physical objects that people create and use.

Consists of not only physical objects but also the rules for using those objects.

The organizations of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.

Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.

A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.

What groups use to enforce their cultural values.

Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.

Have great moral significance attached to them.

Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.

An individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.

Individual culture traits combine to form the next level.

Culture complexes combine to form the next level.

Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior.

The unique cultural characteristics of these groups.

Farmers who live in small villages along the border between Brazil and Venezuela.

Have their own territories and take great care not to trespass on the lands of others.

An Anthropologist that calls the Yanomamo people the fierce people.

Examined hundreds of different cultures in an attempt to determine what general traits are common to all cultures.

Conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation.

Contented, gentle, nonaggressive, receptive, trusting, and warm people.

Agressive, competitive, jealous, and violent people.

Explored the religious prohibition in India against killing cows even when food shortages exist.

Developed the idea of subcultures in the 1920s, through his work on crime and juvenile delinquency.

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Sociology Chapter 2

Cultural Diversity

Question	Answer
Culture	All the shared products of human groups.
Material Culture	The physical objects that people create and use.
Non-Material Culture	Abstract human creations.
Technology	Consists of not only physical objects but also the rules for using those objects.
Language	The organizations of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.
Values	Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.
Society	A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.
Norms	What groups use to enforce their cultural values.
Folkways	Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.
Mores	Have great moral significance attached to them.
Laws	Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
Culture Trait	An individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.
Culture Complexes	Individual culture traits combine to form the next level.
Culture patterns	Culture complexes combine to form the next level.
Culture Universe	Common to all cultures.
Ethnocentrism	Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior.
Subcultrue	The unique cultural characteristics of these groups.
Counterculture	The resulting subculture.
Yanomamo	Farmers who live in small villages along the border between Brazil and Venezuela.
San	Have their own territories and take great care not to trespass on the lands of others.
Napoleon Chagnon	An Anthropologist that calls the Yanomamo people the fierce people.
George Murdock	Examined hundreds of different cultures in an attempt to determine what general traits are common to all cultures.
Margarett Mead	Conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation.
Arapesh	Contented, gentle, nonaggressive, receptive, trusting, and warm people.
Mundugumor	Agressive, competitive, jealous, and violent people.
Marvis Harris	Explored the religious prohibition in India against killing cows even when food shortages exist.
Edwin Sutherland	Developed the idea of subcultures in the 1920s, through his work on crime and juvenile delinquency.

Created by: Moni.Stallworth

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