Research the following and type your answers on this document:

1. Define the term culture.

The arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

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?

For a biologist, it is likely to be a colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a
nutrient medium in a laboratory Petri dish. For anthropologists and other behavioral
scientists, culture is the full range of learned human behavior patterns.
b. What are the 3 layers of culture?
Cultural traditions, Subculture, Cultural universals
c. What is a subculture?
Diverse societies in which people have come from many different parts of the world.
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.
3. Classifying people based on marriage and descent relationships and having kinship
terms to refer to them.
4. Raising children in some sort of family setting.
5. Having a sexual division of labor.
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 widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

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.
b. What is one of the stereotypes youve heard of that is listed in the 1992 gender study?
Males are powerful.
c. Why mass media is considered significant to stereotyping?
Mass media have a strong influence in supporting and tearing down stereotypical
characteristics.
d. Why are stereotypes functional?
We are bombarded with much more information than we can process.
 e. What is the most influential factor in stereotyping? Why?
Prejudice because our perceptions are highly subjective, and many people subscribe to
derogatory descriptions of ethnic groups.

5. Define family dynamics.

Are the patterns of relating, or interactions, between family members.

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

Our family dynamics are very simple. We love to play around a lot with each other and are very
sarcastic. Some people might take us a serious but really we are just playful people.