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puzzle 3 - culture
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Social Work
Undergraduate 2
07/06/2011

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cultural lag
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the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, which may disrupt a cultural system
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counter culture
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cultural patterns that strongly oppose those that are generally accepted within a society
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symbol
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anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
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ethnocentrism
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the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
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folkways
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norms for routine, casual interaction
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mores
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norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance
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cultural universals
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general practice or trait found in every culture
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beliefs
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shared ideas about how the world operates
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language
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a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another
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culture
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values, beliefs, behavior, material objects that together form a people's way of life
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society
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people who interact in a defined territory and share culture
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culture shock
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personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life
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sapir whorf theory
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thesis that people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language
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norms
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rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members
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social fact
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cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societys population
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values
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culturally defined standards by which people asses desirability, goodness and beauty, and which serve as broad guidelines of social living
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