Comprehensive Culture (Parts 1 and 2)

What is one of the visible aspects of culture according to the iceberg model?

• Norms

• Food

• Beliefs

• Values

What is a counterculture?

• A group that rejects the dominant culture

• A group that shares some values with the dominant culture but has distinct differences

• A group that has no relation to the dominant culture

• A group that is identical to the dominant culture.

The way that non-material objects come together with material objects to form a way of life

• Culture

• Language

• Institutions

• Stratification

Physical objects or gestures that carry shared meaning within a societ

• Beliefs

• Values

• Symbols

• Norms

Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies.

• Christianity

• Cultural Universals

• Nuclear Families

• Cultural Specificity

Deeply held views on what is good, right and just.

• Stereotypes

• Attitudes

• Beliefs

• Values

Shared guidelines; the rules and expectations that guide behavior within a society

• Paradigms

• Sanctions

• Norms

• Language

Norms that are informal little rules that often go without saying; Polite v. Rude

• Mores

• Folkways

• Cultural Universals

• Polytheism

Norms that tend to be codified, or formalized, as the stated rules and laws of a society; Right v. Wrong

• Cultural Universals

• Sanctions

• Folkways

• Mores

Norms that are crucial to a society’s moral center, involving behaviors that are always negatively sanctioned. NEVER okay; often cultural universals

• Folkways

• Taboos

• Informal Sanctions

• Cultural Diffusion