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Culture |
The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next |
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Norms |
Expectations of "right" behavior
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Folkways |
Norms that are not strictly enforced
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Mores |
Norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the wellbeing of the group
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Subculture |
the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguished its members from the larger culture; a world within a world
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Counterculture |
A group whose values, beliefs, norms, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader culture |
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Value Cluster |
Values that together form a larger whole |
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Technology |
In its narrow sense, tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools
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New Technology |
The emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life
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Cultural Lag |
Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technology innovations
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Cultural Diffusion |
The spread of cultural traits from one group to another; includes both material and nonmaterial cultural traits |
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Cultural Leveling |
The process by which cultures become similar to one another; refers especially to the process by which western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations
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Sociobiology |
A framework of thought in which human behavior is considered to be the result of natural selection and biological factors: a fundamental cause of human behavior
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Neo-Darwinism |
the modern version of the Darwinism which incorporates the principles of genetics to explain how inheritable variations can arise by mutation |
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Evolutionary Psychology |
A theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations |
