Unit II Jeopardy Perspectives Components DefineIdentifyCultural Change

Components 100 Anything that meaningfully represents something else Can function to produce loyalty and animosity; love or hate

Components 100 Answer Symbols

Components 200 A set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one another. Kinds: Verbal & Nonverbal such as written or in gestures. Unique to humans as a species

Language Components 200 Answer

Components 300 Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture. They provide the criteria for evaluating people, objects and events

Components 300 Answer Values

Components 400 Established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct

Components 400 Answer Norms

Components 500 Those informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture Examples: brushing teeth, kinds of clothes, gestures, religious fasting, kinds of cars we buy, kinds of houses we live in

Components 500 Answer Folkways

Components 600 Are strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may or may not be violated without serious consequences in a particular culture

Components 600 Answer Mores

Components 700 So strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive Example: sexual bonding between close kin

Components 700 Answer Taboos

Components 800 Formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced by formal sanctions

Components 800 Answer Laws

Components 900 Name the 2 types of Canadian Law

Components Answer Civil: deals with disputes between people Criminal: deals with public safety and well-being

Perspectives 100 Bronislaw Malinowski suggested that culture helps fulfill which of the following needs? A.biological, physical and fundamental B.biological and integrative C. biological, instrumental and integrative D. none of the above

Perspectives 100 Answer C. biological, instrumental and integrative

Perspectives 200 Which perspective believes that all societies have dysfunctions?

Perspectives 200 Answer Functionalist

Perspectives 300 Which sociological perspective believes culture may be used by certain groups to maintain their privilege and exclude others from society’s benefits.

Perspectives 300 Answer Conflict

Perspectives 400  Assumes that a common language and shared values help produce consensus and harmony.

Perspectives 400 Answer Functionalist

Perspectives 500 Which sociological perspective studies messages about gender and relationships that are pervasive in culture.

Perspectives 500 Answer Feminist

Perspectives 600 Which sociological perspective believes that there are many cultures within Canada alone. In order to gain a better understanding of how popular culture may simulate reality rather than being reality. They believe we need a new way of conceptualizing culture and society.

Perspectives 600 Answer Post Modern

Perspectives 700 Which sociological perspective suggests that people create, maintain, and modify culture as they go about their everyday activities

Perspectives 700 Answer Symbolic interactionists

Perspectives 800 Pop Culture is the glue that holds society together. It help to integrate people. –Ex. Fans of different backgrounds brought together to cheer at a sporting event.

Perspectives 800 Answer Functionalist

Perspectives 900 Believe that pop culture has become a part of North American capitalist economy -Ex. Disney creates pop culture, such as films, TV shows and Amusement parks

Perspectives 900 Answer Conflict

Define 100 Consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share

Define 100 Answer Material Culture

Define 200 Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people’s behaviour

Define 200 Answer Non-Material Culture

Define 300 Consists of activities, products, and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes These include rock concerts, spectator sports, movies, television soap operas, situation comedies, and, more recently, the Internet.

Define 300 Answer Pop Culture

Define 400 Consists of classical music, opera, ballet, live theatre, and other activities. Activities usually patronized by elite audiences from the upper and middle upper classes. These people have the time, money and knowledge assumed to be necessary for its appreciation

Define 400 Answer High Culture

Define 500 values and standards of behaviour that people in a society profess to hold

Define 500 Answer Ideal Culture

Define 600 the values and standards of behaviour that people actually follow

Define 600 Answer Real Culture

Define 700 Is a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviours that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society. Example: The Hutterites of Western Canada.

Define 700 Answer Subculture

Define 800 a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles. Young people are more likely to join these groups. Flower children of the 1960s, members of non mainstream religious sects, and cults are all examples of countercultures.

Define 800 Answer Counterculture

Define 900 Are values that conflict with one another or are mutually exclusive.

Define 900 Answer VALUE CONTRADICTIONS

Identify 100 Are rewards for appropriate behaviour and punishment for inappropriate behavior.

Identify 100 Answer Sanctions

Identify 200 Created a pyramid of 5 levels of human needs.

Identify 200 Answer Maslow

Identify 300 He is considered the Father of Hip Hop music.

Identify 300 Answer Kool Herc

Identify 400 The universal categories were created by anthropologist …

Identify 400 Answer George Murdock

Identify 500 Name the 4 types of Fads

Identify 500 Answer Object Fads Activity Fads Idea Fads Personality Fads

Identify 600 Societies = include people who are dissimilar in regard to social characteristics such as nationality, race, ethnicity, class, occupation or education. i.e. Canada

Identify 600 Answer HETEROGENSOUS SOCIETY

Identify 700 A _________ is regularly repeated and carefully prescribed forms of behavior that symbolize a cherished value or belief

Identify 700 Answer Ritual

Identify 800 Knowledge and appreciation of high culture is considered a prerequisite for access to the dominant class who can then deny access to lower classes, reinforcing class structures. This is known as __.

Identify 800 Answer CULTURAL CAPITAL THEORY

Identify 900 General customs and practices present in all cultures that help humans meet their basic needs are called …

Identify 900 Answer Cultural Universals

Cultural Change 100 …is a gap between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institutions.

Cultural Change 100 Answer CULTURAL LAG

Cultural Change 200 _______ is the transmission of cultural items or social practices from one group or society to another.

Cultural Change 200 Answer DIFFUSION

Cultural Change 300 ________ is the disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own.

Cultural Change 300 Answer Culture Shock

Cultural Change 400 ____is the extensive infusion of one nation’s culture into other nations.

Cultural Change 400 Answer CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Cultural Change 500 _______ is the process of reshaping existing cultural items into a new form. Example = Light bulbs.

Cultural Change 500 Answer Invention

Cultural Change 600 _______is the process of learning about something previously unknown or recognized. Example = Polio vaccination

Cultural Change 600 Answer Discovery

Cultural Change 700 The tendency to regard one’s own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior. All other groups are then seen as inferior. Judge groups based upon the standards of your own race/culture

Cultural Change 700 Answer Ethnocentrism

Cultural Change 800 The belief that the behaviors and customs of a society must be viewed and analyzed by the culture’s own standards

Cultural Change 800 Answer Cultural Relativism

Cultural Change 900 What is meant by “Cool Hunting” ?

Cultural Change 900 Answer Markerters have to find a way to seem real: true to the lives and attitudes of teenagers; in short, to become cool themselves. To that end, they search out the next cool thing and have adopted an almost anthropological approach to studying teens and analyzing their every move as if they were animals in the wild.