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Exam 1, Sociology, Kaiser Study Guide
objects or belongings of a people - Answer✔✔-material culture
ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society - Answer✔✔-nonmaterial culture
are almost all human behaviors learned? - Answer✔✔-yes
patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies - Answer✔✔-cultural
universals
who first recognized the existence of cultural universals while studying kinship? -
Answer✔✔-George Murdock
what is an example of a universal language? - Answer✔✔-music
evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural
norms - Answer✔✔-ethnocentrism
Who came up with ethnocentrism? - Answer✔✔-William Graham Sumner
the deliberate imposition of one's own cultural values on another cultlure -
Answer✔✔-cultural imperialism
disorientation and frustration when immersed in a new culture - Answer✔✔-culture
shock
the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through
the lens of one's own culture - Answer✔✔-cultural relativism
who coined the term "culture shock"? - Answer✔✔-Kalervo Oberg, 1960
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refers to the belief that another culture is superior to one's own - Answer✔✔-
xenocentrism
a culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in society - Answer✔✔-
values
the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true - Answer✔✔-beliefs
What is deeply embedded and critical for transmitting and teaching a culture's beliefs? -
Answer✔✔-values
standards society would like to embrace and live up to - Answer✔✔-ideal culture
the way society actually is - Answer✔✔-real culture
a way to formally disapprove of certain behaviors - Answer✔✔-sanction
a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms - Answer✔✔-social control
how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as right, good, and
important and most members of society adhere to them - Answer✔✔-norms
established, written rules - Answer✔✔-formal norms
casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to - Answer✔✔-informal
norms
norms that embody the moral views and principles of a group - Answer✔✔-mores
norms without any moral underpinnings; day-to-day stuff - Answer✔✔-folkways
gestures, signs, objects, signals, and word that help people understand the world -
Answer✔✔-symbols
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©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
Exam 1, Sociology, Kaiser Study Guide
objects or belongings of a people - Answer✔✔-material culture
ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society - Answer✔✔-nonmaterial culture
are almost all human behaviors learned? - Answer✔✔-yes
patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies - Answer✔✔-cultural
universals
who first recognized the existence of cultural universals while studying kinship? -
Answer✔✔-George Murdock
what is an example of a universal language? - Answer✔✔-music
evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural
norms - Answer✔✔-ethnocentrism
Who came up with ethnocentrism? - Answer✔✔-William Graham Sumner
the deliberate imposition of one's own cultural values on another cultlure -
Answer✔✔-cultural imperialism
disorientation and frustration when immersed in a new culture - Answer✔✔-culture
shock
the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through
the lens of one's own culture - Answer✔✔-cultural relativism
who coined the term "culture shock"? - Answer✔✔-Kalervo Oberg, 1960
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©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISH SEPTEMBER 2024
refers to the belief that another culture is superior to one's own - Answer✔✔-
xenocentrism
a culture's standard for discerning what is good and just in society - Answer✔✔-
values
the tenets or convictions that people hold to be true - Answer✔✔-beliefs
What is deeply embedded and critical for transmitting and teaching a culture's beliefs? -
Answer✔✔-values
standards society would like to embrace and live up to - Answer✔✔-ideal culture
the way society actually is - Answer✔✔-real culture
a way to formally disapprove of certain behaviors - Answer✔✔-sanction
a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms - Answer✔✔-social control
how to behave in accordance with what a society has defined as right, good, and
important and most members of society adhere to them - Answer✔✔-norms
established, written rules - Answer✔✔-formal norms
casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to - Answer✔✔-informal
norms
norms that embody the moral views and principles of a group - Answer✔✔-mores
norms without any moral underpinnings; day-to-day stuff - Answer✔✔-folkways
gestures, signs, objects, signals, and word that help people understand the world -
Answer✔✔-symbols
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