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Sociology ch2 valles
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | shared products of human groups |
| material culture | physical objects created by human groups |
| nonmaterial culture | abstract human creations, such as languiage... |
| society | group of mutually interdenendent people who have organized in such a way as to share common culture |
| technology | knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes |
| language | organization of written and spoken symbols into a standardized system |
| values | shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable |
| norms | shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations |
| folkways | norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them, customs of everyday life |
| mores | norms that have great moral significance attached to them |
| laws | written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by a government |
| culture trait | individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need |
| culture complexes | clusters of interrelated cultural traits |
| culture patterns | combination of a number of culture complexes into a interrelatted whole |