Vocabulary Quiz on Cultural Concepts

What are Cultural Universals?

What is a Subculture?

What is Counterculture?

What is Ethnocentrism?

What is Cultural Relativism?

What is Cultural Diffusion?

What is Cultural Lag?

What is Cultural Leveling?

Examined hundreds of different cultures in an attempt to determine what general traits are common to all cultures. Identified more than 65 cultural universals.

• George Herbert Mead

• Herbert Spencer

• George Murdock

• Robin M. Williams

Common features such as beliefs, a family structure, cooking practices, and funeral ceremonies that exists in every society.

• Cultural Universals

• Culture Lags

• Cultural Relativity

• Culture Shock