Ch.3 Cultural Norms/ Sociology

The learned norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language and symbols that are constantly communicated among people who share a common way of life.

• culture

• dominant culture

• folkways

• norms

The group whose value, norms, traditions, and outlooks are imposed on the society as a whole.

• dominant culture

• ethnocentrism

• folkways

• laws

The tendency to view one’s own cultural patterns as good and right to judge other culture patterns by those standards.

• ethnocentrism

• folkways

• culture

• cultural relativism

A system of verbal (and usually also written) symbols with rules about how those symbols can be strung together to convey more complex meanings.

• language

• laws

• material culture

• mores

All the physical objects, or artifacts, that people make and attach meaning to

• material culture

• nonmaterial culture

• mores

• social markers

Norms that people consider vital to their well-being and to their most cherished values.

• mores

• laws

• values

• symbols

A set of distinctive norms, values, knowledge, artifacts, language, and symbols that a particular group in society uses to distinguish itself from the dominant culture

• subculture

• symbol

• counterculture

• dominant culture

An object, gesture, sound, image, or design that represents something other than itself

• symbol

• values

• nonmaterial culture

• mores

All human are born with this biological survival system

• Instincts

• Symbolism

• Feet

• Religion

Norms that have great moral significance attached to them are made into

• Movies

• Laws

• Children names

• Beliefs