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Mores
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Strongly held norms with moral and ethical connotations that may not be violated without serious consequences
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Moral norms
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Non material culture
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A component of culture that consists of the abstract or intangible human creation of society that influences people's behavior
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Language, beliefs, values, family patterns, and social systems
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Symbolic interactionist perspective
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Highlights how people maintain and change culture through their interactions with others. People create maintain and modify culture as they go about their everyday lives
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Micro level analysis
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Conflict perspective
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Certain groups me use culture to maintain their privilege and exclude others from society's benefits
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Sapir Whorf hypothesis
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Language shapes the view of reality of its speakers. Language not only expresses thoughts and perceptions but also influences our perception of reality
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Created by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf.
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Cultural relativism
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The belief that behaviors and customs of any culture must be viewed in analyzed by the culture's own standards
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Alternative to ethnocentrism
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Functionalist perspective
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Assumes that a common language and shared values help produce consensus and harmony
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Subculture
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I can agree with people who share distinguishing attributes beliefs and values and or norms that set them apart in some significant manner from dominant culture
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Technology
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Knowledge, techniques, and tools that make it possible for people to transform resources into visible form and the knowledge and skills required to use them after they are developed
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Values
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Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in a particular culture
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High culture
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Classical music, opera, ballet, live theater and other activities usually patronized by elite audiences
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Counter culture
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A group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles
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Hippies
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Cultural diversity
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Wide range of cultural differences found between and within nations
Homeogeneous societies: common culture (Sweden) Heterogeneous societies: dis-similar (USA) |
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Drive
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Unlearned biologically determined impulses common to all members of the species that satisfy needs
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sleep, food, water, sex
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Culture
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The knowledge, language, values, customs and material objects passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human society or group
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Material culture
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A component of culture that consist of physical or tangible creations that members of society make, use, or share
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Begin as raw materials such as ore, trees, and oil
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culture shock
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The disorientation people feel when they encounter cultures radically different from their own and believe they cannot depend on their own taken for granted assumptions about life
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Reflex
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Unlearned biologically determined involuntary responses to some physical stimuli
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Sneeze
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Taboos
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Mores so strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable
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Incest
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Language
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A set of symbols that expresses ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another
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Both verbal and nonverbal
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Value contradictions
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Values that conflict with one another
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Humanitarian values (welfare) conflict with values emphasizing hard work
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cultural lag
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A gap between the technical development of the society and its moral and legal institutions
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Popular culture
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Activities products and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working class
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Beliefs
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The mental acceptance or conviction that certain things are true and real
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Cultural universals
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Customs and practices that occur across all societies. Idea by George Murdock there are more than 70 of these including body adornment, hairstyles,dancing and games
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Cultural imperialism
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Extensive infusion of one nation's culture into another nation
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USA and the English language
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Norms
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Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct
prescriptive=acceptable proscriptive=unacceptable |
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Laws
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Formal standardized norms that have been enacted by legislatures and are enforced by formal sanctions.
Civil law deals with person or group dispute Criminal law deals with public safety and well being |
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Symbol
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Anything that meaningfully represents something else culture cannot exist without symbols
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Ethnocentrism
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The practice of judging all other cultures by one's own culture assumption your way is the best way
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Folkways
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Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequence within a particular culture
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Using deodorant and brushing your teeth
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Sanction
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Rewards for appropriate behavior or penalties for inappropriate behavior
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