Research the following and type your answers on this document:

1. Define the term culture.

- The way a certain group of people grow up

2. Using the following link, answer the following questions:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/culture/culture_1.htm
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a. According to the article, what are 2 definitions of culture?

- appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food & culture is the full range of learned
human behavior patterns.
b. What are the 3 layers of culture?
1.
2. subculture
3. cultural universals
c. What is a subculture?
- complex, diverse societies in which people have come from many different parts of the
world, they often retain much of their original cultural traditions
d. List the cultural universals.
-1. communicating with a verbal language consisting of a limited set of sounds and
grammatical rules for constructing sentences
2.using age and gender to classify people (e.g., teenager, senior citizen, woman, man)
3.classifying people based on marriage and descent relationships and having kinship terms to
refer to
them (e.g., wife, mother, uncle, cousin)
4.raising children in some sort of family setting
5.having a sexual division of labor (e.g., men's work versus women's work)
6.having a concept of privacy
7.having rules to regulate sexual behavior
8.distinguishing between good and bad behavior
9.having some sort of body ornamentation
10.making jokes and playing games
11.having art
12.having some sort of leadership roles for the implementation of community decisions

e. What is the difference between culture and society?

-While cultures are complexes of learned behavior patterns and perceptions, societies are
groups of interacting organisms

2. Define the term stereotype.

- A form of grouping certain induvial: by actions, race, disability ect
- Stereotyping is defined as an oversimplified, usually pejorative, attitude people hold toward
those outside one's own experience who are different

4. Using the following link, answer the following questions:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring02/chandler/what-is-stereotyping-page.htm
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a. What are some different categories of stereotypes?

- Sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion and physical ability are various categories which
exist in stereotyping.
 b. What is one of the stereotypes youve heard of that is listed in the 1992 gender study?
- males were typically characterized as adventurous, powerful, domineering and independent.
Females, on the other hand, were characterized as sentimental, submissive and superstitious
c. Why is mass media considered significant to stereotyping?
- since we rely on second-hand sources for our information for the majority of our knowledge.
The main outlet of second-hand information is the mass media
d. Why are stereotypes functional?
- As audience members we are bombarded with much more information than we can process.
Our tendency is to reduce complexity to simplicity.
e. What is the most influential factor in stereotyping? Why?
- Being prejudice

5. Define family dynamics.

-Family dynamics are the patterns of relating, or interactions, between family members. Each family
system and its dynamics are unique, although there are some common patterns

6. According to this definition, what are your family dynamics?

- Well every day at a certain time me, my mom, and my sister eat dinner together and watch Dr.Phil.