SOC Unit 1-2 Final Review

Common features that are found in all human cultures

• Cultural Diffusion

• Countercultures

• Cultural universals

• Subcultures

A group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns

• Counterculture

• Cultural lag

• Subculture

• Cultural universal

The tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural relativism

Which element of culture is written or spoken symbols?

• Symbols

• Language

• Technology

• Values

Consists of shared products of human groups, which include both physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group

• Norms

• Culture

• Values

• Folkways

Behaviors that are prohibited or restricted by social custom

• Mores

• Folkways

• Taboos

The ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives

• Sociological imagination

• Sociological perspective

• Social interaction

• Sociology

Advocated the idea that scholars should try to improve society, not just study it

• Auguste Comte

• Harriett Martineau

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

Focused on studying the experiences of people living in poverty-stricken neighborhoods

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Jane Addams

• W.E.B. Du Bois

A group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within and complies with a larger culture

• Counterculture

• Cultural lag

• Subculture

• Cultural universal