Elements of Culture Greenleaf test
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
