Sociology Unit 4 Culture Vocabulary List

Culture: ________ shared by members of society.

• Culture

• Traditions

• Ethics

• Beliefs

Society: a specific territory inhabited by people who share a common ________.

• culture

• language

• tradition

• history

Material Culture: refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their ________.

• identity

• culture

• heritage

• customs

Non-material culture: refers to the nonphysical ideas that people have about their culture, including beliefs, values, rules, norms, morals, language, organizations, and ________.

• rituals

• traditions

• customs

• festivals

Instincts: innate (unlearned) patterns of ________.

• behavior

• responses

• actions

• movements

Reflexes: automatic reaction to physical ________.

• stimuli

• forces

• impulses

• actions

Drives: impulse to reduce ________.

• ______

• anxiety

• stress

• conflict

Sociology: the study of the biological basis of human ________.

• behavior

• society

• culture

• emotion

Symbols: a thing that stands for or represents something ________.

• Symbols

• significantly

• figuratively

• abstractly

Language: a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enable people to think and communicate with one ________.

• another

• a different

• its own

• anyone