all shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by a group.

The physical objects that people create and use form a groups material culture. (Ex. automobiles, books, buildings, clothing, computers, and cooking utensils.

Abstract human creations, such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems.

A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity.

Knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes.

Organization of written and spoken symbols into a standardized system.

Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong,desirable or undesirable.

Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations.

Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.

Norms that have great moral significance.

Written rules of conduct enacted and enforced by the government.

Individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need.

A cluster of interrelated traits.

The combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole.

An element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all human cultures.

To view one's own culture and group as superior.

Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.

Group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture.

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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Chapter 2

Question	Answer
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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