Unit 3 Review Sociology

Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture

• Symbols

• Language

• Values

• Culture

culturally defined standards by which people assess desirability, goodness, and beauty and that serve as broad guidelines for social living

• Norms

• Values

• Culture Shock

• Counterculture

Cultural Patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within society

• Subculture

• Counterculture

• High Culture

• Popular Culture

the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that together form a person’s way of life

• Culture

• Culture Shock

• Language

• Material Culture

system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another

• Values

• Symbols

• Material Culture

• Language

human creations of a society

• Non-material Culture

• Culture

• Material Culture

• High Culture

cultural patterns that are widespread among society’s population

• Subculture

• Counterculture

• High Culture

• Popular Culture

disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life

• Subculture

• Culture

• Culture Shock

• Popular Culture

cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population

• Counterculture

• Subculture

• High Culture

• Pop Culture

cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite

• Counterculture

• Subculture

• High Culture

• Pop Culture