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Contemporary cultures have various correlated parts which are continuously changing at different rates. According to economist Thorstein Veblen and sociologist William F. Ogburn, the non-material part of the modern culture lags behind the material, a situation known as a culture lag. The concept and theory of culture lag helps in the identification and analysis of social and psychological problems. It is a significant tool in socioeconomic analysis and policy formation.
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Anyone who feelsdisoriented, uncertain, out of place, even fearful, when immeised in an unfamiliar culture may be experiencing | Culture Shock |
The term sociologist use to refer to a segment of society that shared distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs form the pattern of the larger society. | Subculture |
Terroist groups are examples of ? | Counter cultures |
cultural beliefs and practice4s that helpto maintain powerful social, economic,and political interests? | Dominant Ideology |
Which view of culture became popular in sociology in the United States beginning in the 1950's | Functionalist Theory |
Which theoretical perspective maintains that stability requires a consensus and the support of society's members? | Functionalist Theory |
Health, love, and democracy are examples of | Values |
Patterns of male dominance are reinforced in many societies around the world by | Folkways |
In the U.S. we often formalize norms into | Laws |
The statement "Respect your elders,"reflects | Norms |
According to Sapir-whorf hypothesis | Language precedes thought |
What term did William Ogburn introduce to refer to the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions | Culture Lag |
The emergence of Starbucks in China represents what aspects of culture? | Globalization |
What term do sociologist use to refer to the process by which a cultural item spreads form group to group or society to society? | Diffusion |
The finding of the DNA molecule is an example of | Discovery |
The process of introducing a new idea or objects to culture is known as. | Innovation |
People's need for food, shelter and clothing are examples of what Murdock referred to as | Culture Universals |
Culture is defined as | THe totality of learned, socially trasmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior |
Argot | Specializedlanguage used by members of a group or subculture. |
Billiangualism | The use of two or more languages in a particular setting such as the workplace or schoolroom treating each language as equally legitimate. |
Counterculture | A subculture that deliberatley opposes certain aspects of larger culture |
Cultural Relativism | The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture. |
Cultural Universal | A common practice or belief found in every culture. |
Discovery | The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality. |
Folkway | A norm governing everyday behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern. |
Formal Norm | A norm that has been written down and that specifies strict punishments for violators. |
Informal Norm | A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
Innovation | The process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture through discovery or invention. |
Invention | The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before |
Language | An abstract system of word meaning and symbols for all aspects of culture; includes gestures and other nonverbal communication |
Law | Governmental social control |
Material culture | The physical or techological aspects of our daily lives |
Mores | Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. |
Nonmaterial Culture | Ways of using material objects, as well as customs, belif, philosophies, governments and patterns of communication. |
Norm | An established standard of behavior maintained by a society. |
Sanction | A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. |
Society | A fairly laage number of people who live in the same territoyr, are relatively indepent of peo;le outside it , and participate in a common culture. |
Sociobiology | The systamatic study of how bilogy affects human social behavior |
Subculture | A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of the larger society. |
Technology | Cultureral information about how to use the material resources of the environment to staisfy human needs and desires. |
Value | A collective conception of what is considered good, desirable, and proper or bad, undesirable, and improper in culture. |
Evaluating the practices of other cultures on the basis of our own perspective is referred to as | Ethnocentrism |
Sociobiologist apply this man's principle of natural selection to the study of social behavior | Charles Darwin |
When one places a priority on understanding other cultures, rather than dismissing them as ' strange' or 'exotic' | Cultural relativism |