Culture and Norms

A speed limit sign is an example of a/an:

• Formal Norm

• Informal Norm

• Formal Sanction

• Informal Sanction

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

• Religion

• Philosophy

• Culture

• Society

expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal prison sentence or an execution

• negative sanction

• positive sanction

• cultural leveling

• material culture

An exchange student travels to Morocco to learn local language and culture. The first month he was there, he spent a lot of time at local bazaars where he learned about Moroccan “material culture”. Which of the following is not an example of material culture?

• vases

• Prayers

• Necklaces

• money

Norms that are everyday habits and conventions.

• folkways

• mores

• laws

• norms

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

Norms that are enacted as formal rules by a political body and enforced by the power of the state.

• laws

• material culture

• norms

• subculture

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

Human creations, such as values, norms, knowledge, systems of government, language, and so on, that are not embodied in physical objects.

• nonmaterial culture

• material culture

• subculture

• social marker