Culture trait : A culture trait is the learned system of beliefs, values, traditions, symbols and meanings that are passed from one generation to another within a specific community of people. The least unit of culture is called the culture trait. Hence the answer is FALSE.
Q. What aspects of culture is the most obvious and defined as the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system?
One of the most obvious aspects of any culture is its language. Language is the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system.
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- Q. What aspects of culture is the most obvious and defined as the organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system?
- Q. What is the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture?
- Q. What is a norm with moral significance?
- Q. What are some examples of Folkway norms?
- Q. What is the one difference between a more and a Folkway?
- Q. What is mores in your own words?
Q. What is the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture?
Ethnocentrism in social sciences In social sciences, ethnocentrism means to judge another culture based on the standard of one’s own culture instead of the standard of the other particular culture.
Q. What is a norm with moral significance?
William Graham Sumner, an early U.S. sociologist, recognized that some norms are more important to our lives than others. Sumner coined the term mores to refer to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Q. What are some examples of Folkway norms?
Folkways are norms related to everyday life—eating with silverware, getting up in the morning and going to work or school for example. There are also mores, which are behaviors that are right or wrong…don’t kill people, don’t steal… Some norms are explicitly taught, others are tacit—we pick them up through observation.
Q. What is the one difference between a more and a Folkway?
What is one difference between a more and a folkway? – Mores are constructed based on norms; folkways are not. – Mores may carry serious consequences if violated; folkways do not. Mores may carry serious consequences if violated; folkways do not.
Q. What is mores in your own words?
1 : the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group have tended to withdraw and develop a self-sufficient society of their own, with distinct and rigid mores— James Stirling. 2 : moral attitudes the evershifting mores of the moment— Havelock Ellis.