Unit II JeopardyPerspective

sComponents Define Identify Cultural

Change

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Components

100

Anything that meaningfully represents something elseCan 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 cultureExamples: 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 peopleCriminal: deals with public safety and well-being

Perspectives 100Bronislaw Malinowski suggested that culture helps fulfill

which of the following needs? A. biological, physical and fundamentalB. biological and integrative C. biological, instrumental and integrativeD. 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 600Which 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 AnswerSymbolic 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 AnswerFunctionalist

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 FadsActivity Fads Idea FadsPersonality 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 AnswerCultural 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 AnswerCULTURAL 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 AnswerDiscovery

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.