Name _________________________ Class _______________ Date ________________
Sociology 12 – Unit 2 Culture Concept
2.1 demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture
Instructions: Match each definition with the correct term. Put the correct letter in the box.
R
L
X
P
G
U
1. the transmission of cultural items or social practices from one group or
society to another
2. Consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society
make, use, and share
3. Anything that meaningfully represents something else
A. Value
contradictions
B. Culture
4. a group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and
behaviours that differ in some significant way from that of the larger society
5. suggest that people create, maintain, and modify culture as they go about
their everyday activities
6. customs and practices that occur across all societies
D. Nonmaterial culture
S
7. Mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive
and even unmentionable
W
8. Set of symbols that express ideas and enable people to think and
communicate with one another
9. culture may be used by certain groups to maintain their privilege and
exclude others from society's benefits
10. Values that conflict with one another or are mutually exclusive
F
A
Q
C. Values
E. High culture
F. Conflict
perspective
G. Symbolic
Interactionist
perspective
H. Mores
I.
Counterculture
J. Popular culture
K. Real culture
O
11. The values and standards of behaviour that people in a society profess to
hold
12. consists of classical music, opera, ballet, and other activities usually
patronized by elite audiences
13. a group that strong rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks
alternative lifestyles
14. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious
consequences with a particular culture
15. Established rules of behaviour or standards of conflict
V
16. believe that culture today is based on simulation, not reality
P. Subculture
T
Q. Ideal culture
K
17. Formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are
enforced by formal sanctions
18. assumes that a common language and shared values help produce consensus
and harmony
19. The values and standards of behaviour that people actually follow
M
20. Rewards for appropriate behaviour or penalties for inappropriate behaviour
T. Laws
H
21. Strongly held norms with moral or ethical connotations that may not be
violated without serious consequences in a particular culture
22. Consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that
influence people’s behaviours
23. Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or
undesirable in a particular culture
24. consists of activities, products, and services that are assumed to appeal
primarily to members of the middle and working classes
25. The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are
passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a
U. Cultural universals
E
I
Y
N
D
C
J
B
L. Material culture
M. Sanctions
N. Functionalist
perspective
O. Norms
R. Diffusion
S. Taboos
V. Postmodern
perspective
W. Language
X. Symbols
Y. Folkways
Name _________________________ Class _______________ Date ________________
Sociology 12 – Unit 2 Culture Concept
2.1 demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture
human group or society