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Culture:Sociology
Key Terms from Chapter 3 in online text.
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Shared beliefs, values, and practices | Culture |
| People who live in a definable community and share a culture | Society |
| Deliberately disrupting social norms in order to learn about them | Ethnomethodology |
| A definable region | Community |
| The deliberate imposition of one’s own cultural values on another culture | Cultural Imperialism |
| The practice of assessing a culture by its own standards, and not in comparison to another culture | Cultural Relativism |
| Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies | Cultural Universals |
| An experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life | Culture Shock |
| To evaluate another culture according to the standards of one’s own culture | Ethnocentrism |
| The objects or belongings of a group of people | Material Culture |
| The ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society | Nonmaterial Culture |
| A belief that another culture is superior to one’s own | Xenocentrism |
| Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true | Beliefs |
| Direct appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture | Folkways |
| Established, written rules | Formal Norms |
| Consists of the standards a society would like to embrace and live up to | Ideal Culture |
| Casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to | Informal Norms |
| A symbolic system of communication | Language |
| The moral views and principles of a group | Mores |
| The visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured | Norms |
| The way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists | Real Culture |
| A way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors | Sanctions |
| People understand the world based on their form of language | Sapir-Whorf hypothesis |
| A way to encourage conformity of culture | Social Control |
| Gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture | Symbols |
| A cultures standard for discerning what is good and just in society | Values |
| Groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural patterns | Countercultures |
| The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture's acceptance of it | Cultural Lag |
| The spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another | Diffusion |
| Things and ideas found from what already exists | Discoveries |
| The integration of international trade and finance markets | Globalization |
| The cultural patterns of society's elite | High Culture |
| New objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time | Innovations |
| A combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms | Inventions |
| Mainstream, widespread patterns among a society's population | Popular Culture |
| Groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society's majority, even as the members exist within a larger society | Subcultures |
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