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22 Cards in this Set
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Counterculture
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Groups that reject the norms and values of dominant culure and have a distinctive way of life that is in conflict with dominant culture's norms and values. Ex: Hippies, white supremacists
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Culture
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The values, ideas, beliefs, behaviors, language, and material objects that form a people's distinctive way of life and are transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Cultural relativism
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The evaluation of the practices and customs of a culture by that culture's own standards
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Culture Shock
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The disorientation people feel when they are exposed to a way of life that is very different from their own
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Cultural universals
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Those customs, traits, and behaviors that occur in every known culture.
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Ethnocentrism
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The practice of evaluating other cultures by the values and standards of one's own culture.
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Folkways
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norms and customs of lesser moral significance that guide everyday interactions, and which may be violated without serious consequences
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High Culture
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Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite from the other classes in a society
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Ideal Culture
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The values a culture professes to be very important.
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Incest Taboo
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A cultural universal that forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives.
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Lnaguage
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A set of symbols that allows people to think and communicate with each other
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Laws
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Formal norms created by a society's government that are punishable by official sanctions when violated.
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Material Culture
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The tangible objects that mambers of a society use, share, and create. EX: automobiles, cell phone, artwork
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Mores
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Nomrs of considerable moral significance that carry serious consequences if violated. EX: vows of marraige
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Nonmaterial culture
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The intangible parts of a society, such as ideas, values, beliefs, norms, and language, that shape peoples' behaviors
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Norms
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Specific rules that specify how someone is expected to act in a certain situation
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Popular Culture
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Cultural patterns that are widespread within the middle and working classes of a society.
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Real Culture
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The actual values embodied in the everyday behaviors of members of a specific culture
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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States that language shapes the specific way people understand, view, and interpret reality.
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Subculture
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A group of people that possess some cultural patterns that distinguishes it from the larger society
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Symbol
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Anything that carries a specific meaning recognized and understood by people in the same culture, including sounds, gestures, and written representations
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Values
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General evaluative standards by which members of a specific culture determine what is right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, and good or bad.
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