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21 Cards in this Set
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Tool kit
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culture is the "tool kit" of survival
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Material Culture
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consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share.
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Nonmaterial Culture
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consists of the abstract or intangible human creations of society that influence people's behavior.
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Beliefs
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the mental acceptance or conviction that certain things are true or real.
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Components of Culture
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Symbols, Language, Values, Norms,
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Symbols
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anything that meaningfully represents something else
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Language
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a set of symbols that express ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another.
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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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Most important Core value for United States
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Indvidualism
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Norms
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established rules of behavior or standards of conduct.
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Value Contradictions
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values that conflict with one another or are mutually exclusive( achieving one makes it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve another)
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prescriptive norms
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state what behavior is appropriate or acceptable.
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Proscriptive norms
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state what behaviors are unacceptable or inappropriate
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Formal norms
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are written down and involve specific punishments for violators
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subculture
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a category of people who share distinguish attributes, beliefs, values, and/or norms that set them apart i some significant manner from the dominant culture.
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Counterculture
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a group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles
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Civil law
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Disputes among people or groups
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Criminal Law
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deals with public well being
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Technology
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the knowledge, techniques, and tools, that make it possible for people to transform resources into usable forms, and the knowledge and skills required to use the knowledge and skills required to use them after they are developed.
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Cultural Imperialism
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the extensive infusion of one nation's culture into another's.
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Symbolic Capital
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the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and functions as an authoritative embodiment of cultural value.
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