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| The totality of our shared language, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. |
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| The structure of relationships within which culture is created and shared through regularized patterns of social interaction. |
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| A common practice or belief shared by all societies. |
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| The systematic study of how biology affects human behavior. |
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| The process of introducing a new idea or subject through discovery or invention. |
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| The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality. |
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| The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not exist before. |
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| The process by which a cultural item spreads from a group to group or society to society. |
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| The physical or technological aspects of our daily life. |
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| Ways of using material objects, as well as customs, ideas, expressions, beliefs, knowledge, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication. |
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| A period of adjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions. |
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| A system of shared symbols; it includes speech, written characters, numerals, symbols, and nonverbal gestures and expressions. |
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| The idea that the language a person uses shapes his or her perception of reality and therefore his or her thoughts and actions |
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| The uses of gestures, facial expressions, and other visual images to communicate. |
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| A collective conception of what is considered good, desirable, and proper-or bad, undesirable, and improper-in a culture. |
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| An established standard of behavior by a society. |
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| A norm that generally has been written down and that specifies strict punishments for violators. |
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| Formal norms enforced by the state. |
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| A norm that is generally understood but not precisely recorded. |
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| Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society. |
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| Norms governing everyday behavior, whose violation raise comparatively little concern. |
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| A penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm. |
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| A set of cultural beliefs and practices that legitimates existing powerful social, economic, and political interests. |
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| A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society. |
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| Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture. |
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| A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspect of the larger culture. |
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| The feelings of disorientation, uncertainty, and even fear that people experience when they encounter unfamiliar cultural practices. |
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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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| The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture. |
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