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Sociology ch.2-3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Harriet Martineau | She compared slavery to the oppression of women in our society |
| Jane Addams | She worked with the poor and exploited workers and their children |
| Norms | rules defining approperiate and inappropriate behavior |
| Taboo | a rule of behavior, the violation of which calls for strong punishment |
| Formal Sanctions | sanctions imposed by persons given special authority |
| Real Culture | actual behavior patterns of members of a group |
| Counter Culture | a subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominate culture |
| Cultural Universals | general cultural traits that exist in all cultures |
| Symbol | anything that stands for something else and has an agreed-upon meaning attached to it |
| Sociobiology | the study of biological basis oh human behavior |
| Culture | knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society |
| Mores | norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society |
| Sanctions | rewards and punishments used to encourage people to follow norms |
| Subcultural | a group that is a part of the dominate culture but that is differs from it in some important respects |
| Ethnocentrism | judging others in terms of one's own cultural , religious, or cultural standards |
| Cultural Particulars | the ways in which a culture expresses universal traits |
| Sapir Whorf Hypothesis | |
| Material Culture | |
| Non- Material Culture | |
| Folkways | |
| Informal Sanctions | |
| Ideal Culture |