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EXAM 2 SOC - JCCC Spence Questions and Answers
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EXAM 2 SOC - JCCC Spence Questionsand Answers
Culture - Answer-Patterns or behaviors, knowledge, customs, material and non-material
elements are passed on from one generation the next
Material culture - Answer-Tangible elements (transportation, food, architecture, art)
Non-material culture - Answer-symbols, language, values, norms
language - Answer-Set of symbols arranged to form communication to allow for
interaction to be possible
Social norms - Answer-Expected sets of behaviors
Folkways - Answer-Ordinary customs
Example of folkways - Answer-Standing in line, shaking hands
Mores - Answer-Taboo acts
Examples of mores - Answer-Cannibalism, incest, adultery
Formal norms - Answer-Laws and rules
Sanctions - Answer-Punishments attached if a norm is broken to enforce conformity
Values - Answer-Standards based in belief systems
Robin Williams Jr. 10 core American values - Answer-Individualism, material wealth,
activity, science and technology, humanitarianism, efficiency, success, freedom,
racial/group superiority, equality
Cultural lag - Answer-When material and no material culture do not change
simultaneously
Ethnocentrism - Answer-When one judges another culture or another's behaviors and
beliefs by the standards of one's own culture
Consequence of ethnocentrism - Answer-Insult, misunderstanding, genocide
Dominant culture - Answer-Representative of the most powerful group who is most
supported by all social institutions and has closest relationship to resources
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