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19 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
consists of all the shared products of human groups- beliefs, values and behaviors. |
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Material Culture |
the physical objects that people create and use; automobiles, books, buildings, and clothing. |
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Nonmaterial Culture |
abstract human creations: beliefs, family patterns, ideas, language, political and economic systems, rules, skills and work practices. |
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Society |
a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as the share a common culture and feeling of unity. |
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Values |
shared beliefs about what is good and bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. |
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Norms |
shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in certain situations. |
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Folkways |
norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them, outline the common customs of everyday life. |
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Mores |
have great moral significance attached to them because violations of such rules endangers society's well- being and stability; dishonesty, fraud, murder- serious mores are formalized as laws. |
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Laws |
written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government- laws enforce mores essential to social stability such as those against, arsonk, murder, rape and theft. |
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Cultural universals |
features common to all cultures- basic needs that all societies must develop. |
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Subculture |
a smaller group in society that does not share the values, norms and behaviors of the entire population. |
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Counterculture |
a group that rejects the major values, norms and practices of a larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns, such as cyberpunk movement, anarchists, organized crime families and hippies of 1960's. |
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Ethnocentrism |
the tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior |
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Cultural Relativism |
the belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture. |
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Cultural Difussion |
the spreading of cultural traits- ideas, beliefs, and material objects from one society to another. |
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Cultural Lag |
the time between changes, when ideas and beliefs and material objects from one society to another. |
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Cultural Leveling |
a process in which cultures become more and more alike. |
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Self- fulfillment |
a commitment to the full development of one;s personality, talents and potential. |
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Narcissism |
extreme self- centeredness |
