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SOCI 1301 Test 1- Chapter 1,2,3|Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Mean - ansThe average
Mode - ansThe most
Median - ansThe middle
Culture - ansis the broad "way of life" of a group of people.
Sapir-Whorf Thesis - ansthe language you speak can determine how you see the world
Symbols - ansis real in and of itself, but stands for something beyond itself
Poly-chronic Cultures - anssee time as a circle or ribbon
Mono-chronic Cultures - anssee time as linear (past, present, future). Beginning and end.
Edward Hall - anscame up with the idea of Poly-chronic and Mono-chronic cultures
Individualistic cultures - ansValues the individual over the group
Collectivist cultures - ansValues the group over the individual
, Diffusion - ansThe process of coming into contact with each other coming into contact
with each other and the exchange between us that inevitably results.
Invention - ansComing up with something new that has never before been in existence
Cultural lag - ansRefers to different parts of a culture changing at a different rate and this can
cause disruptions or adjustment problems for society.
Material culture - ansextremely broad; all of the "stuff" that a group of people create and use
Non-material culture - ansthe ideas created by members of a society
Folkways - ansEveryday social interaction
Mores - ansmore serious and so is the response
Taboos - ansalmost universally condemned
Proxemics - ansfolkway; cultural norms regarding the use of space; Hall defines it as "the
interrelated observations and theories of man's use of space as specialized elaboration
of cultural."
Archetypes - ansbasic ideas/theme that appear across cultures.
Pons - ansan ancient part of the brain that is only active during REM. Randomly sends out
signals that stimulate random parts of the brain (balance/falling).
Ethnocentrism - ansthe practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own
culture
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