Sociology Tcn

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counterculture

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groups that reject the norms and values of dominant culture an have a distinctive way of life that is in conflict with dominant culture's norms and values

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culture

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the values, ideas, beliefs, behaviors, language, and material objects that form a people's distinctive way of life and are transmitted from ont generation to the next

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cultural revativism

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elevation of the practices and customs of aculture by the culture's own standards

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culture shock

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disorientation people fell when they are exposed to a way of life that is very different from their own

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cultural universals

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those customs, traits, and behaviors that occur in every known culture

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ethnocentrism

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the practice of evaluatin other cultures by the values and standard of one's own culture

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folkways

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norms and customs of lesser morals significance that guide everyday interactions, and which may be violated without serious consequences

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high culture

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cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite from the other classes in a society

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ideal culture

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the values a culture professes to be very important

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incest taboo

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a cultural iniversal that forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives

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language

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set of symbols that allows people to think and communicate with each other

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laws

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formal norms created by a society's government that are punishable by official sanctions when violated

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material culture

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tangible objects that members of a society use, share, and create

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mores

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norms of considerable moral significance that carry serious consequences if violated

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nonmateral culture

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intangible parts of a society, such as ideas, values, beliefs, norms and language, that shape peoples' behaviors

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ethnocentrism

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the practice of evaluatin other cultures by the values and standard of one's own culture

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folkways

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norms and customs of lesser morals significance that guide everyday interactions, and which may be violated without serious consequences

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high culture

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cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite from the other classes in a society

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ideal culture

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the values a culture professes to be very important

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incest taboo

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a cultural iniversal that forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives

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norms

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specific rules that specify how someone is expected to act in a certain situation

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popular culture

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cultural patterns that are widespread within the middle and working classes of a society

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real culture

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the actual values embodied in the everyday behavior of members of a specific reality

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subculture

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a group of people that possess some cultural pattern that distinguishes it from the larger society

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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States that language shapes the specific way people understand, view, and interpret reality

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symbol

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anything that carries a specific meaning recognized and understood by people in the same culture, including sounds, gestures, and written representations

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values

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general evaluative standards by which members of a specific culture determine what is right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, and good or bad

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Subcultures

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Chinatowns-deadheads-Amish-gay/lesbians(accept and follow mores& values)

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Countercultures

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Aryan nation-hippies-(rejects norms & values, have distinct way of life that causes tension/conflict)

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Simmel

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symbolic-interactionalist-culture can be seen as having a life of its own/can be a source of control and constraint upon individuals