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| A group whose values, beliefs, and related behaivors place its members in opposition to the broader culture |
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| The spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another |
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| Ogburn's term for human behaivor lagging behind technological innovations |
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| The process by which cultures become similar to one another; especially refers to the process by which US culture is being imported and diffused into one another nations |
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| not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms |
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| the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next |
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| the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life |
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| the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors |
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| norms that are not strictly enforced |
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| the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another |
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| the ideal values and norms of a people; the goals held out for them (as opposed to real culture) |
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| a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways and can represent not only objects but also abstract thought |
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| the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry |
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| norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values |
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| an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild informal reation such as a frown to a formal reation such as a prison sentence or an execution |
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| an emerging technology that has a signigicant impact on social life |
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| a group's ways of thinking including its beliefs, values, and other assumptions about the world and doing its common patterns of behavior, including language and other forms of interaction |
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| the expectations, or rules of behavior, that develop to reflect and enforce values |
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| a society made up of many different groups |
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| a reward or positive reaction for following norms |
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| expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms |
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| edward sapir's and benjamin whorf's hypothesis that language creates ways of thinking and perceiving |
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| the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture; a world within a world |
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| something to which people attach meanings and then use to communicate with others |
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| another term for nonmaterial culture |
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| a norm thought essential for society's welfare, one so strong that it brings revulsion if violated |
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| in its narrow sense, tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools |
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| a series of interrelated values that together form a larger whole |
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| values that contradict one another; to follow the one means to com into conflict with the other |
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| the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly |
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