Leadership Culture Test
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- What is culture?
- A human invention passed from generation to generation
- material culture
- tangible creations that have meaning attatched to them
- non-material culture
- abstract ideas, beliefs, values, behaviors, and traditions
- cross cultural
- things that have the same meaning in different parts of the world
- symbols
- anything that meaningfully represents something else
- language
- a set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables humans to think and communicate wtih each other
- values
- what we think is right or wrong, good or bad, desireable or undesireable in a particular culture
- ideal VS real culture
- knowing the values you hold, but do you really follow them?
- norms
- established rules of behavior or standards of conduct in society
- folkways
- the everyday tings that we do that people are kind of offended if you don't do them (ex: manners) Edit Card Card Frontfolkways everyday tings that we do that people are kind Card Backthe everyday tings that we do that people are kind of offended if you don't do them (ex: manners)
- mores
- strongly held norms that may not be violated without serious consequences (ex: adultry)
- taboos
- mores so strong that their violation is considered exteremely offensive
- law
- formal standardized norms that are enforced by formal sanctions. Folkways, mores, and taboos can be laws, but not the other way around
- enforced by formal sanction
- enforced by someone of athority or are written down (ex: judge or police)
- discovery
- learning about something new
- invention
- reshape existing cluture into a new form
- diffusion
- transmission of culture from one society to another
- cultural imperialism
- forcing ones culture onto another