Sociology of Culture Vocabulary Review

The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Universal

• Folkway

• More

Norms that are strictly enforced; essential core values of the group

• Taboo

• Norm

• More

• Folkway

An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior

• Taboo

• Norm

• More

• Folkway

emotional stress that frequently occurs when people encounter an extremely different culture

• Cultural Universal

• Cultural Relativism

• Culture Shock

• Cultural Lag

a value, norm, or other cultural trait that is found in every group, i.e., sports, food, medicine...

• Culture Shock

• Cultural Universal

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural Lag

A social position a person takes on voluntarily that reflects personal ability and effort

• More

• Norm

• Ascribed Status

• Achieved Status

Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life

• Value

• Norm

• Ascribed Status

• Achieved Status

the objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry

• Material Culture

• Ideal Culture

• Cultural Relativism

• Cultural Universal

an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm

• Positive Sanction

• Norm

• Value

• Negative Sanction

A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences.

• Ideal Culture

• Cultural Relativism

• Pluralistic Society

• Culture Shock