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23 Cards in this Set
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High Culture
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culture consumed mainly by upper classes
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Popular Culture
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culture consumed by all classes
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Culture
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consists of shared symbols and their definitions that people create to solve real life problems
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Symbols
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concrete things or abstract terms that represent something else.
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Abstraction
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The ability to create general concepts that meaningfully organize concrete, sensory experience.
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Cooperation
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The capacity to create a complex social life by establishing general accepted ways of doing things and ideas about what is right and wrong.
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Norms
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generally accepted ways of doing things.
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Values
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ideas that identify desirable states (conditions that are true, good, or beautiful.
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Production
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the human capacity to make and use tools. It improves our ability to take what we want from nature.
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Material Culture
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comprises the tools and techniques that enable people to get tasks accomplished.
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Non-Material culture
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composition of symbols, norms and other tangible elements
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Folkways
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the least important norms and they evoke the least sever punishment.
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Mores
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core norms that most people believe are essential for the survival of their group or their society.
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Taboos
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they are among the strongest norms. when someone violates a taboo, it causes revulsion in the community, and punishment is severe.
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The Sapir Whorf thesis
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It holds in experience that certain things in our environment and form concepts about those things. We then develop language to express our concepts. Finally, language itself influences how we see the world.
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Culture relativism
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the belief that all cultures have equal value.
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The rights revolution
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the process by which socially excluded groups struggled to win equal rights under the law and in practice beginning in the second half of the 20th century.
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Rites of passage
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cultural ceremonies that mark the transition from one stage to another.
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post-modernism
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is characterized by an eclectic mix of cultural elements and the erosion of consensus.
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Rationalization
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the application of the most efficient means to achieve given goals and the unintended, negative consequences of doing so.
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Consumerism
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the tendency to define ourselves in terms of the goods we purchase.
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Subculture
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a set of distinctive values, norms, and practices within a larger culture.
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Countercultures
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subversive subcultures
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