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Sociology Chapter 2

Cultural Diversity

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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.
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