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14 Cards in this Set
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Symbol |
Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture. |
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Language |
A system of symbols that allows members of a society to communicate with one another. |
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Cultural diffusion |
The spread of cultural traits innovations social practices knowledge systems or information from one individual or group to others. |
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Socialization |
The process through which the culture of a society is transmitted to group members. |
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Acculturation |
A process by which contacts between between different cultural groups led to a acquisition of new culture patterns by one or both groups. |
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Enculturation |
We take our own way of life for granted. |
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Ethnocentrism |
Ones way of life superior to others. |
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Media |
Supplies members of society with information reinforces the policies of other institutions and socializes members of society. |
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Mass media |
Transmits messages. |
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Semantic derogation |
Depreciation of words through their usage. |
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Discourse |
Specialist systems of knowledge and practices which are united by a common assumption and function go close off possibilities of other ways of thinking talking and behaving. |
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Imaginary avenues of escape |
Media gives us ways to escape the realities of our lives and dulls our critical and thinking abilities. |
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Ideological hegemony |
When a ruling class or alliance of classes systematically engineers an ideology that not only dominates but also directs society. |
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Anomie |
Contradictions in the social order. |
