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Culture |
A set of beliefs, traditions, and practices; the sum of the social categories and concepts we embrace in addition to beliefs, behaviors (except instinctual ones), and practices; everything but the natural environment around us. |
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Ethnocentrism |
The belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others, and the tendency to view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own. |
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Nonmaterial culture |
Values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms. |
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Material culture |
Everything that is part of our constructed, physical environment, including technology. |
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Ideaology |
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect. |
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Culture relativism |
Taking into account the differences across cultures without passing judgement or assigning value. |
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Cultural scripts |
Modes of behavior and understanding that are not universal or natural. |
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Subculture |
The distinct cultural values and behavioral patterns of a particular group in society; a group united by sets of concepts, values, symbols, and shared meaning specific to the members of that group distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society. |
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Values |
Moral beliefs. |
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Norms |
How values tell us to behave. |
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Socialization |
The process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society. |
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Reflection theory |
The idea that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere, a screen onto which the film of underlying reality or social structures of a society is projected. |
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Media |
Any formats, platforms, or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information. |
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Hegemony |
A condition by which a dominant group uses its power to elicit the voluntary "consent" of the masses. |
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Consumerism |
The steady acquisition of material possessions, often with the belief that happiness and fulfillment can thus be achieved. |
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Culture jamming |
The act of turning media against themselves. |