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| Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture. |
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The use of two or more languages in a particular setting, such as the
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| A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture. |
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| The viewing of people’s behavior from the perspective of their own culture. |
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| A common practice or belief found in every culture. |
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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 polarization of society over controversial cultural issues. |
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| The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society. |
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| The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality. |
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| A set of cultural beliefs and practices that help to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests. |
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| The tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others. |
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| A norm governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern. |
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A norm that has been written down and that specifies strict punishments for
violators. |
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| The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas. |
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| A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
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| The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before. |
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| The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives. |
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Ways of using material objects as well as customs, beliefs, philosophies,
governments, and patterns of communication. |
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| The totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. |
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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 process of introducing a new idea object into a culture through discovery or invention. |
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| Governmental social control. |
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| An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture; includes gestures and other nonverbal communication. |
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| Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. |
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