Chapter 14

Cooperation

Behavior by two or more individuals that leads to mutual benefit

Rituals

Formal, ceremonial behaviors with a specific purpose and significance.

Collecting

Research, explore and gather information about your topic using different sources.

Sacred and Profane

Sacred consumption is related to special events that are out of the ordinary, Profane: ordinary related to everyday life

Locavore

a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or produced food.

Sacralization

a process that occurs when ordinary objects, events, or people take on sacred meaning to a culture or to specific groups within a culture

4. The systematic acquisition of a particular object or set of objects is called ________.

collecting

Thomas and his family recently toured the Gettysburg Battlefield on their vacation. The area was rich in history. While walking, Thomas remembered all the accounts of the battle that he had read in school. He finally understood why this place had such a special meaning in American history and to Americans in general. Gettysburg Battlefield is best classified as ________.

collecting

Through the process of ________, ordinary objects associated with sacred events or people become sacred in their own right

contamination

It is quite common for mainstream culture to modify symbols identified with "cutting edge" subcultures and present these to a larger audience. Such cultural products undergo a process of ________, by which their original meanings are transformed by outsiders.

cooptation

In the cultural production process, the people who control the flow of information between producers and customers are called ________.

cultrual gatekeepers

A story containing symbolic elements that express the shared emotions and ideals of a culture is called a ________.

myth

________ consumption occurs with objects and events that are considered to be ordinary and everyday

profane

Culture

society's personality

Myths

stories that express a culture's values, and in modern times marketing messages convey these values to members of the culture

Objectification

the action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object.