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? In biology it is considered a

colony of bacteria or other microorganisms growing in a nutrient medium in a laboratory
Petri dish.
In anthropology and other behavioral sciences it says culture is the full range of learned
human behavior patterns.
b. What are the 3 layers of culture? The first one is the body of cultural traditions, the second
one is subcultures and the third one layer is cultural universals.
c. What is a subculture? A subculture is a cultural group within a larger culture, often having
beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.
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? Cultures are complexes of learned
behavior patterns and perceptions, societies are groups of interacting organisms

3. Define the term stereotype. Stereotype is a 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, and
religion.
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? Stereotyping is a product of
culture, therefore, mass media have a strong influence in supporting and tearing down stereotypical
characteristics.
 d. Why are stereotypes functional? Our tendency is to reduce complexity to simplicity. We
trade-off for simplification, which can lead to inaccuracy and we are often unaware of this deduction.
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.
Unfortunately the selectivity of a person's perception result in people seeing what they expect to see
when they come in contact with members of an ethnic group they view with prejudice

5. Define family dynamics. Family dynamics are the patterns of relating, or interactions, between
family members

6. According to this definition, what are your family dynamics? Me and my sisters fight with each
other over food.