CULTURE VOCAB Chapter 3 Vocabulary

HIGH CULTURE

Refers to cultural patterns that distinguish society’s elite

Cultural patterns only accessible to some members of society

EXAMPLE:

Going to Broadway Musicals

Season Ticketholders 1st class seats, box

seats Having a “driver”

POP CULTURE

Cultural patterns that are extremely widespread among society's population

EXAMPLES Media Reality TV Technology Music Commercials

SUBCULTURES Cultural patterns that distinguish some segment of a society’s population.

Ex: In Mean Girls movie, the lunch tables…

EXAMPLE

Surfers Jazz musicians Motorcyclists Nerds Poets Campers Ethnic groups/religions

COUNTERCULTURE Refers to cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within society.

EXAMPLE:

Amish EMO’s Vegans Polygamist Hippies

CULTURE UNIVERSALS

Traits that are found in every known culture

Common elements: family, funeral rites, and jokes

ETHNOCENTRISM

The practice of judging another cultural by the standards of one’s own culture

Would Americans want other countries to judge us on these standards?

DINNING IN JAPAN VS UNITED STATES

CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Practice of judging a culture by its own standards

Washing clothes in the Ganges, India

Eskimos killing whales

CULTURAL LAG Refers to the fact that cultural

elements change at different rates, which may disrupt a cultural system.

Ex: School Calendars - Most schools still have a 9-month school year which was originally designed to let kids be home working in the fields during the summer

Life Support- medical advancements make tough choices for families

CULTURE SHOCK someone experiencing another culture

may feel disoriented and even fearful. They may be served foods they’ve never

seen before, or they may not understand how to act in social situations.

Everything they understand based on their own culture may be completely different, sending them into mental and emotional shock.

ACTIVITY Directions: You are an advertisement

executive trying to sell your product or idea to a counterculture. You will write out a skit and perform it in front of the class.

Must figure out what the counterculture wants

Must get them to buy/believe in your product or idea Think about characteristics of counterculture and

characteristics of product/idea

COUNTERCULTURE OPTIONS

Amish- the new IPhone EMO’s- the new Taylor Swift CD Vegans- Steak dinner Polygamist- a marriage license for one wife

the rest of their life Hippies– mainstream clothes, hairstyles, etc.

(shirt and tie, polo, skirt with stiletto heels, short hair for men, hair with “body” for women)

Anarchists/Militants – support for a Presidential Campaign

CULTURE OF ADVERTISING… Commercial Ads- focused and cater to the

viewer Ex: ESPN (most audience members are men,

therefore commercials about strong trucks and wrangler jeans

Ex: SOAPS (most people who stay home and watch them are women therefore commercials are about “Swiffer wet jet” and other cleaning supplies

Catchy slogans are given Ad executives create commercial to what the

audience wants to see/hear

QUESTIONS TO PONDER

What is the difference between nonmaterial culture and material culture?

Do you think you can learn more about a person by studying their nonmaterial culture or their material culture?

Explain the cause of culture shock? Why is there a decline in the number of

cultures?