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Culture |
The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next |
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Material culture |
Material objects that distinguish a group of people |
Clothes, jewelry, hairstyle |
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Inmaterial culture |
Groups ways of thinking and doing |
Beliefs, values, pattern behavior |
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Culture shock |
Disorientation that people experience when they come into contact with a different culture and can no longer depend on their assumptions about life |
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Ethocentrism |
Using ones culture to judge another |
American way of life vs Muslim |
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Cultural relativism |
Not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms |
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Symbolic culture |
Another term for nonmaterial culture |
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Symbol |
Something which people attach meaning and then use to communicate with one another |
Gestures, language, values |
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Sapir-whorf hypothesis |
Language creates ways of thinking and perceiving |
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Values |
Standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable |
Beautiful or ugly |
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Norms |
Expectations of right behavior |
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Sanctions |
Either expressions of approval given to people for following norms or expressions of disapproval for violating them |
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Folkways |
Norms that are not strictly enforced |
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Mores |
Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the wellbeing of the group |
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Taboo |
Norm so strong that it brings extreme sanctions, even revulsion, if violated |
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Subculture |
Values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish it's members from the larger culture |
Body building |
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Counterculture |
Group whose values, beliefs, norms, and related behaviors place it's members in opposition to the broader culture |
Tattoo culture |
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Pluralistic society |
Society made up of many different groups |
United States |
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Core values |
The values that are central to a group, those around which group builds a common identity |
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Value cluster |
Values that together form a larger whole |
Education, hard work, individualism |
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Value contradiction |
Values that contradict one another |
Group superiority contradicts freedom |
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Emerging values |
Leisure, self-fulfillment, physical fitness, youthfulness, concern for the enviorment |
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Distorting lenses |
What life ought to be not what it is |
Circumstances that keep people from achieving success |
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Ideal culture |
People's ideal values and norms; goals held out for them |
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Real culture |
Norms and values that people actually follow as opposed to ideal culture |
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Cultural universal |
A value, norm, or other cultural trait that is found in every group |
Not real |
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Sociobiology |
Human behavior is considered to be the result of natural selection and biological factors |
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Cultural diffusion |
Spread of cultural traits from one group to another; includes both material and nonmaterial cultural traits |
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