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53 Cards in this Set
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Define non-material culture:
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"includes symbolic human creations These are things such as philosophies, beliefs, customs, and governments.
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What is the metaphor sociologist Ann Swidler used for culture?
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Toolkit contains Strategies, Scripts, and stories.
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What is consumer culture?:
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is a way of life centered on consumption that became entrenched in American in the late 1800 and early 1900
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What is the major theme of consumer culture?
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How does culture function?
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Define culture shock:
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personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life.
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Define symbol:
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anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
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Define language:
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a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another
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What does the Sapir-Whorf thesis convey? :
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The idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language
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Define values:
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: Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living.
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Define norms:
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rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
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Define mores:
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norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
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Define folkway:
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norms for routine or casual interaction.
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Define ideal culture:
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how we are supposed to behave based on cultural norms and values.
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Define real culture:
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what actually happens in everyday life
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Define habitus:
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a structure of the mind characterized by a set of acquired schemata, sensibilities, dispositions and taste
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According to Pierre Bourdieu how is habitus formed?:
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habitus is formed and reformed through interaction with the social and material worlds
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What are the characteristics of the following societies as they relate to technology: horticultural, agricultural, industrial, post-industrial society?
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"Horticultural: the use of hand tools to raise crops, appeared around 10,000 years ago. The hoe and the digging stick
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Define popular culture:
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cultural patterns that are widespread among a society population
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Define subculture:
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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society population
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Define counterculture:
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cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
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Define ethnocentrism:
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the practice of judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture
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In the article Truth in Advertising Joe Chemo was a subvertisement of what advertisement?
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Joe the camel cigarettes
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What is culture jamming?:
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is a tactic used by many consumer social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising.
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SOCIALIZATION
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SOCIALIZATION
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Define socialization:
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the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
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Define personality:
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a persons fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.
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Which theory developed by John B. Watson claims that human behavior is not instinctive, but learned?
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Behaviorism
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What did the Harlow experiments show:
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Found that complete isolation for even six months seriously hurt their social skills and Unable to interact with others in a group.
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Define material culture:
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refers to physical creations of a society these are things such as buildings, clothing, tools and etc.
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What is the self according to George Herbert Mead:
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is part of our personality and includes self- awareness and self- image.
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What is taking the role of the other:
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All symbolic interaction, then, involves seeing ourselves as others see us
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What is the looking-glass self? :
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A self-image based on how we think others see us
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How did Mead believe the self was developed:
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develops only as a result of social experience.
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According to George Herbert Mead what is social experience?:
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involves the exchange of symbols.
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"Imagining peoples underlying intentions
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Mead believed the self had two parts, what are they
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"One part of the self operates as subject, being active and spontaneous.
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Define significant other:
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people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization
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Define generalized other:
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Mead term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves
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Know the agents of socialization and how they function:
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"Family: Nurture in early Childhood
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How does the example the author used about fester and his twin brother help us see how socialization makes us human.
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If you dont have culture you cannot form a personality
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How does the author resolve the debate between Nurture and Nature? "
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What qualities does the author say that Socialness includes? "
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Where does the author say these qualities arise from?
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From our social life.
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Why do some people resist being sociologically mindful? "
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What does the old Chinese proverb mentioned in the article say about individuality?"
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What does the author say learning our name causes us to do?
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You become a aware of yourself as an object. You learned that you were a creature that could be talked about, thought about, praised, scolded, loved, hated and so on.
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Where does the author say we gather meaning to ourselves from? "
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What are some of the meanings he says that we gather to ourselves?
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Identities such as student, biology major, son or daughter, Democrat, liberal, Christian or Buddhist, black or white, gay or straight, baby boomer or generation Xer.
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The author argues that we dont just depend on other to help us define ourselves but to do what?
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But also to maintain a coherent and stable sense of who and what we are as persons.
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According to the author if others didnt do this (above answer) what would we have a hard time doing? "
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What is silent knowledge? "
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What is mindful resistance?
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Knowing what your suppose to do but not going with that, choose to live or think differently.
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