Diversity and Similarity RECAP

a group that is part of the dominant culture but differs from it in some ways

• Counterculture

• Subculture

• Ethnocentrism

• High culture

a method of judging others by one’s own cultural standards

• Counterculture

• Subculture

• Ethnocentrism

• High culture

How does a counterculture differ from a subculture?

• A counterculture deliberately opposes the beliefs of the dominant culture

• A subculture has fewer group members than a counterculture

• Subcultures consciously reject the beliefs of the dominant culture

• Countercultures target subcultures for criticism

____ is an example of a subculture.

• San Francisco's Chinatown

• a white supremacist gang

• a prison population

• members of a farming community

____ is the view that values, knowledge, and behavior of a people must be understood within their own cultural context.

• Counter-SubCulture

• Cultural Diffusion

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Relativism

______ culture is the mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population. It is known and accessible to most people.