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Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.
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| The use of two languages in a particular setting, such as the workplace or schoolroom, treating each language as eaqually legitimate. |
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| A subculture that deliberatly opposes certian aspects of the larger culture. |
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| The systematic destruction of a group's culture. |
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| The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their culture. |
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| A common practice or belief found in every culture. |
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| The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. |
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| The worldwide media industry that standardizes the goods and services demanded by consumers. |
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| A period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions. |
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| The feeling of surprise and disorientation that people experience when they encounter cultural practices that are different from their own. |
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| The polarization of society over controversial cultural elements. |
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| The process by which a cultural item spread from group to group or society to society. |
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| The process of making known or sharing the existance of an aspect of reality, |
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| A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests. |
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| The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. |
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| A norm governing everyday behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern. |
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| A norm that has been written down and that specifies strict punishment for violators. |
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| The deliberate, systematic killing of an entire people or nation. |
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| A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
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| The process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture through discovery or invention. |
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| The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before. |
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| An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture; includes gestures and other nonverbal communications. |
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| Governmental social control. |
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| The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives. |
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| Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. |
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| Ways of using material objects, as well as customs, beliefs, philosophies, goverments, and patterns of communication. |
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| An established standard of behavior maintained by a society. |
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| A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. |
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| A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping our interpretation of reality. It holds that language is culturally determined. |
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| A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory, are relativley independant of people outside their area, and participate in a common culture. |
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| The systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior. |
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| A segment of society that shares a distinctive patterns of customs, rules, and traditions that differs from the pattern of the larger society. |
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| A gesture, object, or word that forms the basis of human communication. |
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| Cultural information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires. |
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| A collective conception of what is considered good, desirable, and proper- or bad, undesirable, and imprope- in a culture. |
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