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Ch.2 Sect. 1 and 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What country did the opening story take place in? | Northern Africa |
| What was the average height of women in this country? | 5 feet |
| What movie was mentioned? | Casablanca, Raiders of the Lost Arc |
| What were the 2 physical characteristics of the observer? | Blue eyed blonde, 6 foot plus |
| Language, beliefs, values, norms, behavior, and even material objects passed from one generation to the next. | Culture |
| The material objects that distinguish a group of people, buildings, weapons, ect. | Material culture |
| A groups way of thinking and doing patterns of behaviour, including language and other forms of interaction. | Nonmaterial culture |
| The disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a different culture. | culture shock |
| The use of ones own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other societies. | ethonocentrism |
| Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms. | cultural relativism |
| Another term for nonmaterial culture. | symbolic culture |
| Something to which people use their bodies to communicate with one another. | Gesture |
| A system of symbols that can be combined in a number of ways and can represent objects and abstract thought. | Language |
| List 5 things language allows humans to do | Language allows human experience to be comulative Language provides a social or shared past Language provides a social or shared future Language allows shared persoectives Language allows complex, shared, goal directed behavior |
| Language is the basis for what? | Culture |
| It is the reverse common sense rather than objects and events forcing themselves as our consciousness, it is our language. | Sapir-Whorf hypothesis |
| The standards people define what is good or bad. | Values |
| The expectations or rules of behavior | Norms |
| Expression of approval or disapproval | Sanctions |
| A reward or positive reaction. Examples: Studying for a math test | Positive sanction |
| Disapproval for breaking norm. Examples: Lighting a house on fire | negative sanction |
| Times when people are allowed to break the norm | Moral holiday |
| Places for norms to be broken | Moral holiday places |
| Norms that are not enforced | Folkways |
| Norms that are inforced. | mores |
| A norm so strong brings revulsion. | taboo |
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