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18 Cards in this Set
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Culture
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The set of ideas and things handed down from generation to generation in a particular group or society; culture is both a product of people's actions and a constraint on their actions
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Material Culture(artifacts)
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Things that humans make or adapt from the raw stuff of nature
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nonmaterial culture
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Intangible elements of culture
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symbols, language/gestures
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Anything that represents something else to more than one person
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norms
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Socially accepted rules for behavior
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William Graham Sumner
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folkways, mores/mos
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The most gentle of norms/important norms
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taboos
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Society's most important social norms;even the thought of violating a taboo is deeply repugnant
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sanctions(formal and informal)
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Visible responses to behavior; may be positive or negative, formal or informal
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values
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General or abstract ideas about what is good and desirable, as opposed to what is bad and undesirable
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Beliefs and Ideology
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Shared ideas about what is real; Shared beliefs that are distorted by economic or political condition
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Social Institutions
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A set of ideas about the proper response to an important societal problem
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Cultural Leveling and Diffusion
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Subculture
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A group of peoples whose shared specialized values, norms, beliefs, or use of material culture sets them apart from other people in society
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Counterculture
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Subculture whose values and beliefs set it not only apart from but also in opposition to the dominant culture
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Idioculture
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Knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and customs shared by members of a small group, used by group members to facilitate interaction
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Culture as a Product of Action
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Culture as a Conditioning Elment of Action
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