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Culture Question and answers verified to pass Culture (Sociology) core values - correct answer the values that are central to a group, those around which it builds a common identity (49) counterculture - correct answer a group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors place its members...

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Culture (Sociology)
core values - correct answer ✔the values that are central to a group, those
around which it builds a common identity (49)


counterculture - correct answer ✔a group whose values, beliefs, and related
behaviors place its members in opposition to the values of the broader culture
(48)


cultural diffusion - correct answer ✔the spread of cultural characteristics from
one group to another (57)


cultural lag - correct answer ✔William Ogburn's term for human behavior
lagging behind technological innovations (57)


cultural leveling - correct answer ✔the process by which cultures become
similar to one another, and especially by which Western industrial culture is
imported and diffused into industrializing nations (58)


cultural relativism - correct answer ✔not judging a culture, but trying to
understand it on its own terms (38)


cultural universal - correct answer ✔a value, norm, or other cultural trait that
is found in every group (55)


culture - correct answer ✔: the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors,
and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next
(36)

, culture shock - correct answer ✔the disorientation that people experience
when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no
longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life (37)


ethnocentrism - correct answer ✔the use of one's own culture as a yardstick
for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a
negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors (37)


folkways - correct answer ✔norms that are not strictly enforced (47)


gestures - correct answer ✔the ways in which people use their bodies to
communicate with one another (39


ideal culture - correct answer ✔the ideal values and norms of a people, the
goals held out for them (54)


language - correct answer ✔a system of symbols that can be combined in an
infinite number of ways and can represent not only objects but also abstract
thought (43)


material culture - correct answer ✔the material objects that distinguish a
group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines,
hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry (36)


mores - correct answer ✔norms that are strictly enforced because they are
thought essential to core values (47)


negative sanction - correct answer ✔an expression of disapproval for
breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a
formal prison sentence or an execution (45)

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