Exam 14: Culture

________ consumption occurs with objects and events that are considered to be ordinary and everyday.

A culture production system is a set of individuals and organizations that create and market cultural products.

Winnowing out is part of the cultural selection process.

In the modern holiday ritual of Christmas, the figures of Christ and Santa can be seen as binary opposites; one promotes selflessness while the other promotes materialism.

Define the term "fashion system."

Explain the difference between collecting and hoarding.

________ is the extent to which less powerful members of organizations and institutions accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.

The Macah, a Native American tribe from the Northwest, built functional seagoing canoes that are considered works of art by modern shipbuilders. By definition, these boats would be considered ________.

Which of the following is an object that is admired strictly for its beauty or because it inspires an emotional reaction?

People occupy sacred time and space when they travel on vacation.

Define rites of passage. Describe the three rites of passage phases. Give at least two rites of passage examples.

Casting directors, textbook authors, and retail buyers are all examples of formal gatekeepers in the culture production process.

Define the term "myth."

The aspect of a cultural system which describes the mental characteristics of a people and the way they relate to their environment and social groups is known as ________.

Tory Burch flats, cage-free eggs, electric cars, selfies, and high tech furniture are part of the ________.

When a sacred item or symbol is removed from its special place or is duplicated in mass quantities, then it becomes profane as a result of ________.

Culture is best described as a society's ________.

Hong Kong Disneyland is an example of an emic perspective.

It is quite common for mainstream culture to modify symbols identified with "cutting edge" subcultures and present these to a larger audience. Such cultural products undergo a process of ________, by which their original meanings are transformed by outsiders.

Through the process of ________, objects associated with sacred events or people become sacred in their own right.