Exam 3: Culture

This part of our culture can transmit emotion.For example,it can stand for love (a heart on a valentine),peace (a dove),or hate (a Nazi swastika).

__________ norms state what behavior is appropriate or acceptable.For example,persons making a certain amount of money are expected to file a tax return and pay any taxes they owe.

From the __________ perspective,people create,maintain,and modify culture as they go about their everyday activities.

__________ is the disorientation that people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own and believe they cannot depend on their own taken-for-granted assumptions about life.

Discuss how cultural assumptions are challenged by an encounter with culture shock.

State the definition of norms and distinguish between folkways,mores,and taboos.

__________ are rewards for appropriate behavior or penalties for inappropriate behavior.

When anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon first confronted the Yanomamo tribe of South America,he became nauseated at the sight of their customs and social environment.Chagnon experienced:

Define cultural diversity and contrast homogeneous societies with heterogeneous societies.

A __________ is a large social grouping that occupies the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a way in which language may create and reinforce negative perceptions about race and ethnicity?

Taboos are mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable.

According to sociologist Ann Swidler,__________ is/are a "tool kit of symbols,stories,rituals,and world views that people may use in varying configurations to solve different kinds of problems."

The growing popularity of fast food restaurants throughout many parts of the world is an example of:

Irish Americans,Italian Americans,and Polish Americans are an example of which of the following categories?

__________ is the knowledge,language,values,customs,and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.

Norms are also classified according to their relative social importance.__________ are informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture.

____________ refers to the values and standards of behavior that people in society profess to hold.

A __________ is a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles.

The English language ignores women by using the masculine form: