Elements of Culture Greenleaf test

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Values and norms

2 of the components of culture

Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society

Counterculture

The personal disorientation that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life termed

Cultural shock

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture

Ethnocentrism

Mores are norms which have little moral significance within a culture

False

The term society refers to a shared way of life

False

Values are defined as rules and expectations by which society guides the behavior of its members

False

Most popular music in the US in 1998

Rap

Cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population is termed

Subculture

anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

Symbol

Knowledge that a society applies to the task of living in a physical environment

Technology

Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings

Technology

Culture is...

The beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life

Cultural transmission is defined as a process by which culture is passed from one gen to the next

True

Nonmaterial Culture refers to intangible world of ideas created by members of a society

True

Social sanctions, operating as a system of social control, can involve rewards or punishments.

True

Technology is defined as the knowledge that people apply to the task of living in their surroundings

True

Culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, and beauty, which serve as broad guidelines for social living, is the definition for

Values

Progress and freedom

Values

Tangible human creations are called

artifacts

Specific statements that people hold to be true refer to

beliefs

A system of symbols that allows members of a society to communicate with one other is the definition of

language

rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members

norms

Takes the form of rewards and punishments

sanctions

The organized interaction of people in a nation or within some other boundary in the definition for

society

Cultural symbols often change over time, and even vary withing a single society

true


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