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| tenets or convictions that people hold to be true |
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| groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns |
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| the deliberate imposition of one’s own cultural values on another culture |
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| the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards, and not in comparison to another culture |
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| patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies |
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| shared beliefs, values, and practices |
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| the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it |
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| an experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life |
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| the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another |
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| things and ideas found from what already exists |
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| the practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one’s own culture |
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| direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture |
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| established, written rules |
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| the integration of international trade and finance markets |
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| the cultural patterns of a society’s elite |
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| the standards a society would like to embrace and live up to |
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| casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to |
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| new objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time |
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| a combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms |
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| a symbolic system of communication |
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| the objects or belongings of a group of people |
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| the moral views and principles of a group |
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| the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society |
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| the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured |
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| mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population |
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| the way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists |
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| a way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors |
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| the way that people understand the world based on their form of language |
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| a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms |
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| people who live in a definable community and who share a culture |
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| groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist within a larger society |
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| gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture |
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| a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society |
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| a belief that another culture is superior to one’s own |
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