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Leach Soc Chapter 3
Leach Sociology Terms Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| self-fulfillment | commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential |
| narcissism | extreme self-centeredness |
| internalization | process by which a norm becomes a part of an individual's personality, thereby conditioning the individual to conform to society's expectation |
| sanctions | rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms |
| social control | enforcing of norms through either internalization or sanctions |
| ideology | system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religious, political, or economic interests held by a social group or by society |
| social movement | long-term conscious effort to promote or prevent social change |
| technology | knowledge and tools people use for practical purposes |
| diffusion | spread of culture traits-ideas, acts, beliefs, and material objects-from one society to another |
| reformulation | the process of adapting borrowed cultural traits |
| cultural lag | situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly, or lag behind, other aspects of the same culture |