Culture Terms

What are the objects or belongings of a group of people?

• Material culture

• Nonmaterial culture

• Values

• Beliefs

What are the patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies?

• Assimilation

• Cultural universals

• Nonmaterial culture

• Material culture

What is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture?

• Cultural relativism

• Cultural diffusion

• Culture shock

• Ethnocentrism

What are the stated rules of society (more formal than folkways and tend to have negative sanctions)?

• Mores

• Folkways

• Values

• Beliefs

What is a culture’s standard for determining what is good and just in society?

• Beliefs

• Norms

• Values

• Material culture

What do we call what we think is normal/culturally accepted?

• Beliefs

• Nonmaterial culture

• Mores

• Norms

What are the informal rules that go without saying?

• Mores

• Norms

• Values

• Folkways

What is the shared language, beliefs, values, norms, and behaviors that characterize a group and are passed down through generations?

• Culture shock

• Society

• Material culture

• Culture

What is a group of people who share a common territory and a culture?

• Society

• Culture

• Values

• Beliefs

What is the spreading of cultural characteristics from one group to another?

• Assimilation

• Culture shock

• Cultural diffusion

• Cultural relativism