Sociology: Culture and Subculture Unit Review

Thinking that one’s culture is “natural” and others are “weird”

• Ethnocentrism

• Folk Culture

• Mores

• Subculture

The thinking that if you don’t have a word for it, you can't experience it

• Folkways

• Values

• Beliefs

• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Actively rejecting mainstream ideals

• Subculture

• High Culture

• Pop Culture

• Counter-Culture

All the symbols, ideas, and behaviors that are commonly understood in a society

• Material Culture

• Non-Material Culture

• Values

• Beliefs

Generally popular with most people in a society; fueled by mass media

• High Culture

• Pop Culture

• Folk Culture

• Counter-Culture

Specific ideas about the world

• Values

• Beliefs

• Mores

• Taboos

All the objects that can be touched, seen, tasted, and heard and have a common understanding in society

• Material Culture

• Non-Material Culture

• Folkways

• Mores

Official, stated, written rules

• Mores

• Folkways

• Taboos

• Beliefs

Broad standards that are used to decide good and bad

• Beliefs

• Values

• Mores

• Taboos

Set apart from the mainstream while still carrying mainstream traits

• Counter-Culture

• Subculture

• High Culture

• Folk Culture