Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Sociology Ch.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cultural Universals | common features that are found in all human cultures. |
| Ethnocentrism | tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups |
| Cultural Relativism | belifes that culture should be judged by their own standards. |
| Subculture | group with its own unique values,norms, and structure of society |
| Conterculture | group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |
| George Murdock | anthropologist examined hundreds of diffrent cultures in an attempt to determine what general traits are common to all cultures. |
| Margret Mead | anthropologist conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation. |
| Arapesh | contented, gentle, nonaggressive, receptive, trusting, and warm people. |
| Mundugumor | aggressive, competitive, jealous, and violent people |
| Marvin Harris | arthropologist explored the religious prohibition in India against killing cows even when food shortages exist. |
| Edwin Sutherland | criminologist developed the idea of subcultures in the 1920's through his woek on crime and juvenile delinquency |
| Culture | shared products of humen groups. These products include both physical objects and beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group. |
| Material culture | physical objects created by humen groups. Sociologist and anthropologists use the term antifacts to refer to physical objects of material culture. |
| NonmaterissssssssssssszszzaaaazaszaazwwssasazzzdasasawaswzsdaswaswaswaswwsawssszzzzzzaazsazsazzzswaswadAswaswwaswawqAWSWSAwSasazaawaswaswasaswawqqawqaswaszaszwazzasazasydyal Culture | abstract humen creations, such as language, ideas, belifes, rules, skills, family patterens, work practices and political and economic system. |
| Society | group of mutually interdependent people who have a feeling of unity |
| Technology | Knowledge and tools peolpe use for practtical purpose |
| Language | organization of written and spoken symbols into standardize system |
| Values | Shared belifes about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desireable or undesirable |
| Norms | shared rules of conducy that tell people how to act in specific situation |
| Folkways | norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them-the common custom of everyday life |
| Mores | lnorms that have great moral significance attached to them. |
| Laws | written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the govenment. |
| Culture Complexes | w |
| Culture Patterns | h |
| Yanomamo | f |
| San | s |
| Napoleon Chagnon | j |
Created by:
Annie.Borden
Popular Standardized Tests sets