1D - Society & Culture - Culture

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All Culture consist of 2 parts

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1. Material Culture
2. Nonmaterial Culture

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Material Culture

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Consists of concrete, visible parts of a culture, such as food, clothing, cars, weapons, and buildings. Aspects differe from society to society.

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Nonmaterial Culture

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Consists of intangible aspects of culture, such as values and beliefs, concepts and idea that shape who we are and make us different form other members of other societies.

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Value

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A culturally approved concept about what is right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, principles about how things should be.

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Beliefs

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Specifi ideas that people feel are true. Values support beliefs.

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Dominant Culture

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The group whose members are in the majority or who weild more power than other groups.

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Subculture

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A group that lives differently from but not opposed to , the dominat culture, a culture within a culture

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Counterculture

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A subculture that opposes the dominat culture.

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Ethnocentricism

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The tendency to judge another culter by the standards of one's own culture, entails notion that ones own culture is superior to everyone elses.

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Cutural Relativism

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Examination of a cultural trait within the context of that culture,

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Culture Shock

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The suprise, disorientation, and fear people can experience when they encounter a new culture.

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Culture Lag

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Term coined by William Ogburn, refers to the tendancy for changes in material and nonmaterial culture ro occur at different rates.

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Cultural Diffusion

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Process whereby an aspect of culture spreads throughout a culture from one culture to another.