Soc Ch 2 Test Review

Norms that do not have great moral significance

attached to them- the common customs of everyday

life

• Norms

• Laws

• Mores

• Folkways

Physical objects created by human groups also called artifacts

• Nonmaterial Culture

• Material Culture

• Cultural Universals

• Subculture

Tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups.

• Society

• Culture

• Ethnocentrism

• Counterculture

Group of mutually interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity.

• Society

• Culture

• Subculture

• Counterculture

Knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes

• Computer

• Technology

• Laws

• Mores

Material Culture:

• Language

• Beliefs

• Rules

• Clothing

Nonmaterial Culture:

• Clothing

• Ideas

• Cars

• Books

5 Basic Components of Culture:

• cell phones, symbols, language, values, norms

• technology, material culture, language, values, norms

• technology, symbols, language, laws, norms

• technology, symbols, language, values, norms

Example of a Folkway:

• cover your mouth while chewing

• do not kill

• jail for murder

Example of a law:

• cover your mouth while chewing

• do not kill

• jail for murder