DONE_Sociology Quiz 4 - L11-13

These are the cultural behaviors and ideas that are popular with most people in a society.

• High culture

• Low culture

These are the cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite.

• High culture

• Low culture

These are the cultural patterns that are broadly in line with a society's cultural ideals and values.

• Mainstream culture

• Subculture

These are cultural patterns that set apart a segment of a society's population.

• Mainstream culture

• Subcultures

It is the practice of judging one culture by the standards of another culture.

• Ethnocentrism

• Ethnorelativism

It is a school of thought that re-centers historical and sociological study on the contributions of Africans and African-Americans.

• Eurocentrism

• Afrocentrism

It is a perspective that, rather than seeing society as a homogenous culture, recognizes cultural diversity while advocating for equal standing for all cultural traditions.

• Afrocentrism

• Ethnocentrism

• Multiculturalism

• Eurocentrism

From this perspective, cultures form to provide order and cohesiveness in a society

• Structural functionalist

• Conflict theorist

According to this school of thought, prioritizing one subculture over another can create social inequalities and disenfranchise (or deprive someone of the right to vote) those who belong to cultures that are at odds with the mainstream.

• Structural functionalist

• Conflict theorist

This culture pushes back on mainstream culture in an attempt to change how a society functions. An example of this is during the 1960s when people protested against the Vietnam War and protests for civil rights and women's liberation.

• Counter-culture

• Mainstream

• Subculture