CGC Final Questions And Accurate Answers (A+)
Iceberg model: Visible culture - Answer customs, symbols, behavior, dress, traditions,
heroes
Iceberg model: Invisible culture - Answer beliefs, assumptions, world views,
perceptions, values
Subculture - Answer a culture within a culture you're BORN into
-ex. economic class, race, ethnicity, etc.
Subgroup - Answer a group you VOLUNTARILY join for power and protection
Standpoint theory - Answer seeing the world through your own filters
-people understand the world differently based on where they stand
Cultural hegemony-Answer Domination maintained through the use of culture
-how something is phrased dictates how it is perceived
-can be used to manipulate a culture's perception of reality
Eve theory-Answer we all first were located in one place then migrated out to create
culture
-cannot develop culture if we are stuck in one place
Ethnography-Answer culture learned through experience
-living amongst study group to learn
, Cultural studies - Answer learning about a culture through reading
Cultural relativism - Answer not judging a culture based on your own standards or what
you deem normal
-less judging more learning
Ethnocentrism - Answer Evaluating a culture against your own standards
-believing your own culture is superior
Reference culture - Answer a preserved culture maintained to keep its characteristics
as originally defined
-seeing something a recognizing it as what it is
Biological traits - Answer traits you're born with
- ex. skin color, facial structure
Socio-historical - Answer people were treated different because they looked different
-the way we think about race and ethnicity changes over time
-ex. being born one race and dying another
Socio-biological - Answer social attributes become biological determinants
-biological traits of race
Power elite-Answer group that holds the power over a society, does not have to be the
majority group
High context environment - Answer places where all the rules are known and there is no
need for added explication
-ex. family dinner
Iceberg model: Visible culture - Answer customs, symbols, behavior, dress, traditions,
heroes
Iceberg model: Invisible culture - Answer beliefs, assumptions, world views,
perceptions, values
Subculture - Answer a culture within a culture you're BORN into
-ex. economic class, race, ethnicity, etc.
Subgroup - Answer a group you VOLUNTARILY join for power and protection
Standpoint theory - Answer seeing the world through your own filters
-people understand the world differently based on where they stand
Cultural hegemony-Answer Domination maintained through the use of culture
-how something is phrased dictates how it is perceived
-can be used to manipulate a culture's perception of reality
Eve theory-Answer we all first were located in one place then migrated out to create
culture
-cannot develop culture if we are stuck in one place
Ethnography-Answer culture learned through experience
-living amongst study group to learn
, Cultural studies - Answer learning about a culture through reading
Cultural relativism - Answer not judging a culture based on your own standards or what
you deem normal
-less judging more learning
Ethnocentrism - Answer Evaluating a culture against your own standards
-believing your own culture is superior
Reference culture - Answer a preserved culture maintained to keep its characteristics
as originally defined
-seeing something a recognizing it as what it is
Biological traits - Answer traits you're born with
- ex. skin color, facial structure
Socio-historical - Answer people were treated different because they looked different
-the way we think about race and ethnicity changes over time
-ex. being born one race and dying another
Socio-biological - Answer social attributes become biological determinants
-biological traits of race
Power elite-Answer group that holds the power over a society, does not have to be the
majority group
High context environment - Answer places where all the rules are known and there is no
need for added explication
-ex. family dinner
