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17 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
The learned and shared behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and material objects that characterize a particular group of 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 |
Tangible objects that members of a society make use and shape |
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Non-material culture |
The shared set of meanings that people in a society use to interpret and understand |
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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 |
Standards by which members of a particular culture define what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, desireable or undesirable, beautiful or ugly |
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Norms |
A society's specific rules concerning right and wrong behavior |
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Folkways |
Norms that members of a society as not being critical for a society's survival and that are not SEVERELY punished when violated |
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Mores |
Norms that members of a society consider very impressed because they maintain moral and ethical behavior |
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Laws |
Formal rules for behavior that are defined by a political authority that has the power to punish violators |
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Sanctions |
Rewards for good or appropriate behavior and/or penalties for bad or inappropriate behavior |
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Core US Values |
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Cultural Universals |
Customs and practices that are common to all socities |
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Ideal culture |
Beliefs, values, and norms that people in a society say they hold or follow |
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Real culture |
actual everyday behavior of people in a society |
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Cultural relativism |
Belief that no culture is better than another and that a culture should be judged by its own standards |
