Crash Course Sociology: Symbols, Values, and Norms

Culture can be broken down into:

• Things and Ideas

• Things and Objects

• Ideas and Thoughts

What is "non-material" culture?

• ideas and thoughts

• objects and things

Anything that carries a specific meaning that is recognized by people who share a culture is known as _______

• emblem

• totem

• symbol

The idea that language affects how people see the world around them is the _______

• Picard-Worf hypothesis

• Wallenstein-Richelieu theory

• Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

The cultural standards that serve as guidelines to live by and that people use to decide what is good or bad, what is right or wrong, etc. , are:

• Terms

• Agreements

• Values

These are specific ideas about what people think is true about the world.

• Beliefs

• Terms

• Agreements

These are rules and expectations that guide behavior within a society

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

These are stated rules and laws of a society

• Norms

• Mores

• Folkways

Norms that are crucial to a society's moral center are known as 

• folkways

• mores

• taboos

The three types of norms are:

• folk-art, normalization, ideas

• norms, folkways, mores

• folkways, mores, taboos