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32 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
The learned and shared behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and material objects that characterize taking their group or Society. |
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Society |
A group of people who have lived and worked together long enough to become an organized population and to think of themselves as a social unit. |
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Material Culture |
The tangible objects that members of a society make, use, and share. |
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Nonmaterial Culture |
The sherratt at of meetings that people in a society used to interpret and understand the world. |
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Symbol |
Anything that stands for something else and has a particular meaning for people who share a culture. |
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Language |
A system of shared symbols that enables people to communicate with one another. |
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Values |
The standards by which members of a particular culture define what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desirable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly. |
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Norms |
A society specific rules concerning right and wrong Behavior. |
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Folkways |
Norms that members of a society or group within a society see as not being critical and that may be broken without severe punishment. |
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Mores |
Norms that members of a society consider very important because they maintain moral and ethical Behavior. |
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Laws |
Formal rules about behavior that are defined by a political Authority that has the power to punish violators. |
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Sanctions |
Rewards for good or preferred behavior and penalties for bad or inappropriate behavior. |
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Cultural Universals |
Customs and practices that are common to all societies. |
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Ideal Culture |
The beliefs, values, and Norms that people in a society say they hold or follow. |
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Real Culture |
The actual everyday behavior of people in a society. |
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Ethnocentrism |
The belief that one's culture and way of life are superior to those of other groups. |
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Cultural Relativism |
The belief that no culture is better than another and that a culture should be judged by its own standards. |
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Subculture |
a group of people whose distinctive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting differ from what from those of the larger society. |
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Counterculture |
A group of people who deliberately oppose and consciously reject some of the basic beliefs, values, and Norms of the dominant culture. |
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Multiculturism (cultural pluralism) |
The coexistence of several cultures in the same geographic area, without one culture dominating another. |
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Culture Shock |
A sense of confusion, uncertainty, disorientation, or anxiety that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life or environment. |
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High Culture |
The cultural expression of the society's Elite or highest social classes. |
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Popular Culture |
The beliefs, practices, activities and products that are widely shared among a population in everyday life. |
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Mass Media |
Forms of communication designed to reach large numbers of people. |
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Cultural Imperialism |
The cultural values and products of when society influence or dominant those of another. |
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Cultural Integration |
The consistency of various aspects of society that promote order and stability. |
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Diffusion |
The process through which components of culture spread from one Society to another. |
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Invention |
The process of creating new things. |
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Innovation |
Turning inventions into Mass market products. |
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Discovery |
Requires exploration and investigation, and results in new products, insights, ideas, or behavior. |
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External Pressures |
Pressure for cultural change can be indirect or direct. |
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Cultural Lag |
The Gap one non material culture changes more slowly than material culture. |
