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| The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects passed from one generation to another |
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| Jewelry, art, buildings, weapons, machines, eating utensils, hairstyles, and clothing |
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A group's way of thinking: it's beliefs, values, and assumptions about the world
A group's way of doing: common language, gestures, and other interactions |
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| The effects of our own culture remain imperceptible to us. |
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| The effects of our own culture remain imperceptible to us. |
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| The learned and shared ways of believing and of doing |
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| Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us |
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| Culture becomes the lens through which we perceive and evaluate what is going on around us |
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| tendency to use your own group's way of doing things as the yardstick for judging others |
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| When and by whom was the concept of ethnocentrism defined? |
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| In 1906 by William Sumner |
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| Positive consequence of ethnocentrism |
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| Creates in-group loyalties |
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| Trying to understand a culture in its own terms. We suspend our own perspective in order to grasp the perspecive of others. |
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| Something to which people attach meaning and that then is used to communicate with one another |
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| Gestures, language, values, norms, sanctions, folkways |
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| Through talk people develop a shared past. |
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| Through talk people develop a shared past. |
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| reactions people get for following or breaking norms |
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| Specified times when people are allowed to break norms. Example: Mardi Gras |
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| Norms that are not strictly enforced |
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| norms that are essential to our core values and with which conformitity is insisted. Example: not killing, not raping, etc. |
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| Norm so strongly ingrained that even the thought of its violation is greeted with revulsion |
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| A world within the larger world of the dominant culture |
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| A subculture whose norms and values palce it at odds with the dominant culture |
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| Values, norms, and goals that a group considers ideal, worth aspiring to. |
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| The norms and values that people actually follow |
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| Not all parts of a culture change at the same rate. The material culture usually changes first, followed in the future by the nonmaterial culture. |
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| Process in which cultures become similar to one another |
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