Chapter 3: Culture And Media

The word culture derives from the Latin word colere, which means

Which of the following defines culture?

Culture tends to be

During the 1800s, culture was defined by Matthew Arnold as an ideal, something that is opposed to the real world in which we live. Sociologists today define culture as

Why did industrialization change European culture so dramatically in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Which of the following was a poet and cultural critic who defined culture as the pursuit of perfection and broad knowledge of the world, in contrast to narrow self-centeredness and material gain?

One of the two main categories of culture that includes values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors is known as

Everything in our constructed environment, including technology, buildings, furniture, clothing, and books, is part of our

An example of material culture is

An example of nonmaterial culture is

Acronyms such as LOL, ;-), and LMAO demonstrate that

The study of culture tells us that

According to ________, the language we speak directly influences and reflects the way we think and see the world.

An element of nonmaterial culture known as _____ is a system of concepts and relationships sometimes used to understand cause and effect.

Galileo's discovery that the earth revolved around the sun rather than standing at the center of the universe is an example of

Ideologies are

Margaret Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), where she found that women in Samoa engaged and enjoyed casual sex before they were married. This finding challenged America's

Low culture, such as hip-hop music, is also known as

Which of the following is true regarding the value of high versus low culture?

While they are difficult to define, ____________ are smaller subgroups within a larger dominant society united by sets of concepts, values, symbols, and shared meanings specific to the members of that group.

Subcultures

The various musical genres and the groups inspired by them, such as post-punk music and goths, are examples of

Goth culture tends to exist

If you are a member of a subculture, like the goth subculture, you can be sure that the meaning of certain words and the behavior of the members

Stanley Lieberson's research on first name in the U.S. found that

Stanley Lieberson, a sociology professor at Harvard, studied culture using first names. He found that names

If ____________ are abstract cultural beliefs, then ____________ are how they are put into play

Class mobility and equal opportunity have their roots in

Norms are to ____________ as values are to ____________.

The experience of internalizing a culture's norms, values, and the like, is known as

Although some criticize rap music for its violent lyrics, many rappers defend it by saying it emerges directly from their experiences. Those rappers who make these claims are invoking

Karl Marx asserted that culture

Reflection theory is limited because it

When your friend returns from a study abroad, he reports back to you on the very different foods that people in his host country ate. He explains that to them it's normal, that people in different cultures do things differently, and that he learned not to make value judgments. This is known as

Ruth Benidict, in her Patterns of Culture (1934), coined the term cultural relativism which means

Gendered behaviors, such as wearing dresses and high heels, are examples of learned behaviors that are not natural or universal, and are known as

If a person judges another group by his or her own standards, he or she is being

You take a trip to Alaska and find that Inuit families sleep together naked to stay warm. You find this practice disgusting and can't understand why they don't consider this incestuous. You are being

Until Europeans came into contact with non-Westerners, they tended to see their culture as

The U.S. has laws that prohibit cockfighting. People in Bali might say that people in the U.S. are