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12 Cards in this Set
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Achieved Status
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Status you earned by your own efforts.
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Ascribed Status
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Status you were born into.
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Taboos
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The unthinkable crime.
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Counterculture
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Opposed to many traditional conventions.
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Ethnocentrism
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A feeling of superiority to all others.
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Folkways
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Common ways of acting, feeling, and believing common to a given culture - mild sanctions.
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Mores
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Common ways of acting, feeling, and believing common to a give culture - severe sanctions.
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Self-fulfilling prophecies
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You tend to adopt character that your significant others see.
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Subculture
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A group which subscribes to the superordinate society but retains many elements of their subordinate culture.
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Symbols
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An object (or idea) that stands for something else.
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Culture
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Behavioral patterns transmitted from one generation to the next.
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Instincts
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A biologically determined behavior.
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