Culture and Social Media Lecture Review

Flashcards covering key sociological concepts such as culture, types of culture, norms, sanctions, and cultural perspectives based on lecture notes.

A __ is the material and nonmaterial attributes that members of an organization or society have created and use to carry out collective life.

Culture

__ culture refers to any physical thing that a people create, use, or appreciate.

Material

Non-Material Culture includes __ associated with a cultural group, including ways of thinking and behaving.

ideas

Norms for routine, casual interaction are known as __.

Folkways

Norms that are important to society’s well-being and have great moral significance are called __.

Mores

The strongest type of norms, representing deeply ingrained prohibitions, are __.

Taboos

Formal/Informal and Positive/Negative are types of __ used to enforce norms.

Sanctions

The values, norms, and knowledge of the most powerful groups in a culture constitute the __ culture.

dominant

When other ways of doing and seeing things are devalued in favor of the dominant culture, this is called cultural __.

hegemony

A __ is a unit of a larger culture that shares many characteristics of the larger culture but differs in some important ways.

subculture

A __ is a unit within the larger culture which has norms and values that are in conflict with the dominant culture.

counterculture

The tendency to evaluate other cultures in terms of our own norms, values, beliefs, etc., usually with the presumption that our culture is superior, is known as __.

Ethnocentrism

The notion that other people’s behavior should be interpreted in terms of their own culture is called cultural __.

relativity