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Culture all shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by a group.
Material Culture The physical objects that people create and use form a groups material culture. (Ex. automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, computers, and cooking utensils.
Nonmaterial Culture Abstract human creations, such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems.
Society A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.
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 describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.
Mores Norms that have great moral significance.
Laws Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.
Culture Trait Individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.
Cultural Complexes A cluster of interrelated traits.
Culture Patterns The combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole.
Cultural Universals An element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures.
Ethnocentrism To view one's own culture and group as superior.
Cultural Relativism Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.
Subculture Group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture.
Counterculture Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns
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