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1.1 What is Sociology
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08/30/2011

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The study of the social forces that affect human behavior and thought, what people do with and to one another
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Sociology
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Gobalization, racial classification, technology, symbolic meaning and institions are all examples of?
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social forces
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Largely and invisible force that affects everyone, encompasses the ever-increasing flow of goods services, mooney, people...ete
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globalization
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A human created way of categorizing people by assiging meaning to skin shades and other physical characteristics.
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racial classification
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Helping to expand individuality, microwave is a form of what social forces
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techology
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Putting great value on stones such as diamonds is what type of force.
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symbolic
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Existing out of the conscious individual, people around use seek to impose upon us ways pf thinking, feeling, behaving, and expressing ourselves that we had no hand in creating is considered?
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social facts
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A state in which the ties attaching the individual to the group is weak,(self-centered) such as men are giving role that distance them form others(business man), were women are giving nurturing roles(care giver) is consider.
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egoistic
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Ties that attach the individual to a group such that a person's sense of self cannot be seperated from the group(selfless behavior) such as a gang member who is willing to die for his gang associates or in relgious communities is considered?
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altruistic
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Ties attaching an individual to the group are disrupt or up-rooted due to a dramatic change in circumstances casting and individual into a higher or lower statuses such as the recession or Hurricane Katrina is consider?
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Anomic
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Ties that attach an individual to the group that are so oppresive that there is no hope,inevitable.
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Fatalistic
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A prospective that considers how outside forces, like time in history and the place we live,shape our life stories or biography.
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social imagination
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Individual problems that are caused by personal short-comings related to motivation, attitude, character, or judgment such as if for every 1000 people only one is employed
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troubles
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A social matter that affect many people and can be explained by a larger social force the shortage of charter school in a city opting a lottery.
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issue
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The name given to the changes in manufactoring, agriculture, transportation, and mining that transformed every aspect of society from the 11300s on.
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Industrial Revolution
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Replacing human and animal muscle as a source of power with external sources such as burning wood, coal, oil, and natural gas.
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mechanization
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French philosopher and father of positivism?
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Auguste Comte
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a philosophical system concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding speculation upon ultimate causes or origins using the scienctfic method.
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Positivism
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a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
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theocrastic
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the class that, in contrast to the proletariat or wage-earning class, is primarily concerned with property values.
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bourgeoisie
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(in Marxist theory) the class of workers, especially industrial wage earners, who do not possess capital or property and must sell their labor to survive.
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proletariat
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Resources that are essential to the production and distrubition of goods and services such as:; land, tools, factories...etc
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means of production
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Actions people take in response to others with emphasis on what motivates people to act. Motivates in four ways
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social action
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Antagonism, of the opposing interests held by exploiting and exploited classes.
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class conflicts
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A system based on uniform thinking and behavior, where everyone performs the same task needed to maintain their .livelihood
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mechanical solidarity
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Comet recommended sociologist study this which forces societies to change
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social dynamics
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color line
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Created differences among people,a system ties founded on interdependence, specialization, and cooperation
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organic solidarity
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social statics
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Comet recommended that sociologist study this the forces that hold societies together and give them endurance over time.
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Conflicts
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the major force that drives social change.
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The system of social ties that acts as a cement connection people to one antother and wider society.
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Solidarity
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Disenchantment
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when the goal of profit outweighs any moral responsibility to treat the product with kindness such as animals
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Firsthand knowledge gained by living and working among those being studied.
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sympathetic knowledge
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Wrote Ths Communist Manifesto born in Germany spent much of his life in London working and writing in collaboration with Friedrich Engels.
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Karl Max
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Frenchmen who focused on the division of solidarty and labor.
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'Emile Durkheim
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A german scholar whos task was to analyze and explain how the IR affected social action.
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Max Webber
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Comet suggestion that sociologists study the forces that hold societies together and give them endurance over time.
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social statics
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A prespective that say a part makes a contribution to maintain the stability of an existing society
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function
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manifest dysfunction
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anticipated distraction.
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social interaction
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everyday encounters in which people communicate, interpert, and respond to each other's words and actions.
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commonsence views justifying the sxisting state of affairs.
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ideologies
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anticipated, recognized, or intented effect on maintaining order.
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manifest function
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unanticipated disruptions.
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latent dysfunction
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Focuses on a small scale interpersonal process,social reationships, individual interactions.
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microsociology
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Any kind of object to which people assign a name, meaning, or value.
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symbol
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latent function
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parts that are unanticipated, unintended, and unrecognized effects on an existing society.
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negotiated order
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the sum of existing expectations and newly negotiated ones.
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Occurs when a person is able to evaluate the self from another's viem
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self awareness
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forces on large scale conditons and processes inductrialization, globalization, and urbanization.
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marosociology
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A framework for thinging about and explaining societies are organized and how people in them relate to one another and respond to their surroundings.
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sociological theroy
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A plan sociologist use to gather data on a chosen topic.
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research design
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Because sociologist cannot study everyone and everything a portion of the cases from the population of interest are study.
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Samples
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Obtaining a randonm sample is not always easy, researcher must begin with a complete list of every case in the population which is called?
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sampling frame
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A subset of targeted population in which every case has an equal chance of being selected.
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random sample
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When researches cannot secure a random sample they may choose to target a population that is acessin]ble for stury called.
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non-random sample
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A set of questions a respondent read and answer a form used by reseachers to collect data.
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self adminstered survey
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A form of collecting data which involves reseachers to watch, listen, and record human activity as it happens
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observation
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This form of data collection can be structured or non-structured or a combination of both
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interview
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A phenomenon in which research subjects alter their behavior simply because they are being observed.
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Hawthorne effect
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Objective accounts intended to educate readers about a person, group, or sistuation.
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case studies
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Techniques sociologist and investigators use to formulate, answer questions, collect, analyze, and interpret data.
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Research Methods
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A behavior or characteristic that consist of more than one category.
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Variable
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A clear, precise instruction about how to observe or measure all variables.
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operationalized
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When operational definitions measures what is intended to be measured.
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validity
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The relationship between a dependent and independent varible.
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hypothesis
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A measure is considered this if upon repeating the measure a researcher gets the same result.
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reliable
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The behavior to be explained or predicted is called.
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dependent variable.
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The way of life of people,shared human-created strategies for adapting and responding to one's surrounding, the people and other creatures that are part of the surrounding.
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culture
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Includes the specific practices that distinguish culture from one another
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cutural particulars
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Things that all cultures have in common.
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cultural universals
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Feelings we experience as ws relate to other people.
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social emotions
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A group of interacting who share pass on and create culture.
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society
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Can be rooted in faith, experiecne, tradition or scienctific methods, a concept people accept true concerning how the workd operates and the place of the individual in relationship to others.
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beliefs
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Mundane aspects or details of daily life gives us discipline and support of rountine and habit, like eating a hambugar with your hands.
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folkways
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Among one of the most important symbol systems humans have created, a system that assigns meaning to a particular sound, picture, gesture or a specfic combination of letters.
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language
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Also know as Sapir Whorf no two languages suffiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality
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linguistic relativity hypothesis
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Consists of all physical objects that people have invented or borrow from other cultures.
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material culture
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Essential to the well-being os a group,such as marriage to cousin is forbiden in the US, but in Iraq more that 50% of marriages are between first and second cousins.
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mores
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What sociologist call the intangible human creation that includes beliefs,values,norms and symbols
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nonmaterial culture
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Nonmaterial cultures with written and unwritten rules that specify behavior appropriate and in unappropiate to a particular social sistuation.
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norms
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Symbols
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A word, objest, sound,feeling,odor,gesture or idea which people assign a name or a meaning
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A nonmaterial cultures also consist of general, shared conception of what is good,right,desirable or important.
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values
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A counterculture that withdraw into a seperate community, liveing with minimum interference from the larger society which they view as evil, materialistic, wasteful, or self-centered.
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communitarian utopians
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cultural diversity
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Variety that exist among people who find themselves sharing some physical and virtual space.
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radical activist
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preach, create or demand a new order with new obligations to others, hope for change which include violent and non-violent protest, Ghandi, MLK jr
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countercultures
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cultures that challenge, contradict or reject mainstream culture of which they are apart of.
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mystics
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counterculture that search for truth and for themselves,disregard society, search fo enlightenment
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subcultures
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groups that share mainstream culture but have distinctive values, norms, beliefs, language...etc
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a point of view in which people use their home culture as the standard for judging the worth of another culture's ways.
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ethnocentrism
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A home culture is regarder as inferior to a foreign culture, for example they mighr lable Japan culture a model for harmony, American culture as sel-determine or Native American as model of enviornmental sustainabillity.
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reverse ethnocentrism
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An antidote to ethnocentrism this prespective encourages an anything goes point of view,portray all cultures as equal.
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cultural relativism
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A process by which an idea, an invention or a way of behaving is borrow(steal, immate,purcase or copy)from a foreign source and then adopted by borrowed people.
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cultral diffussion
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