Sociology Culture Vocabulary Section 1

Culture

• A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity

• Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems

• Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

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

Material Culture

• Physical objects created by human groups

• Norms that do not have great moral significances attached to them the common customs of everyday life

• Written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government

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

Nonmaterial Culture

• Physical objects created by human groups

• Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems 

• Norms that do not have great moral significances attached to them the common customs of everyday life

• Norms that have great moral significances attached to them

Society

• A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity

• Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

• Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

• Norms that have great moral significances attached to them

Values

• A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity

• Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

• Physical objects created by human groups

• Written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government

Norms

• Norms that do not have great moral significances attached to them the common customs of everyday life

• Written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government

• Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

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

Folkways

• Norms that do not have great moral significances attached to them the common customs of everyday life

• Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems

• A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity

• Norms that have great moral significances attached to them

Mores

• Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable

• Norms that have great moral significances attached to them

• Physical objects created by human groups

• Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems 

Laws

• Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

• Abstract human creations, such as languages, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems

• Written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government

• Physical objects created by human groups

True or False: Everyone is a part of a culture

• True

• False