Culture Unit Review

Knowledge and tools people use to manipulate their environment.

• Technology

• Biology

• Art

• History

Which is a long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change like Pay it Forward.

• Social movement

• Charity event

• Community service

• Fundraising campaign

Physical products include automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, computers, and cooking utensils.

• Material culture

• Digital products

• Services

• Intangible assets

Process by which a norm becomes a part of an individual’s personality thus conditioning that individual to conform to society’s expectations.

• Internalization

• Socialization

• Acculturation

• Assimilation

___ are anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it.

• Symbols

• Objects

• Words

• Signs

Tendency to view one’s own culture and group as superior.

• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Relativism

• Multiculturalism

• Cultural Assimilation

Which are rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms.

• Sanctions

• Privileges

• Penalties

• Incentives

_______________ consists of all the shared products of human groups, both physical and abstract.

• Culture

• Economy

• Technology

• Government

Punishment or the threat of punishment to enforce conformity such as frowns, imprisonment, and even death.

• Negative sanction

• Positive reinforcement

• Social reward

• Community service

Rewards or punishments by a formal organization or regulatory agency such as the government, the police, corporation, or school.

• Formal sanction

• Informal sanction

• Personal reward

• Community service