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Chapter 2 1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | shared products of human groups. |
| material culture | physical objects created by human groups. |
| nonmaterial culture | abstract human creations such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems. |
| technology | knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes. |
| language | organization of written and spoken symbols into a standardized system. |
| values | shared beliefs about good and bad, right or wrong, and desirable and 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 - the common customs of everyday life. |
| mores | norms that have great moral significance attached to them. |
| laws | written rules of conduct that enacted and enforced by the government. |
| culture trait | individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need. |
| culture complexes | clusters of interrelated culture traits. |
| culture patterns | combination of a no. of culture complexes into an interrelated whole. |
| culture universals | common features that are found in all human cultures |
| enthnocentricism | tendency to view one's culture own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups |
| culture relativism | belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards |
| subculture | group with its own unique valiues, norms, and behaviors that exists in a larger culture |
| counterculture | group of rejects the values, norms and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |