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the knowledge, technigues, and tools that allowed people to transform resources into a a usable form and the knowledge and skills | technology |
group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternant lifestyle | counter culture |
is the disorientation (anxiety) people espress when they encounter cultures radically different from their own. | culture shock |
Sub culture | a group of people who share a distinctive set of culture components that differe in some significiant way from that of a larger society. |
Dominant Culture | Defining characteristics is power, not size |
Symbols | anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people sharing a culture |
Folkways | Rules that cover customary ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. |
non-material culture | a component of culture that consitis of the abstract or intangible human creations of society |
material culture | a component of culture that consisits of the physical or tangible creations |
Culture | the sum of objects,or knlowedge, language of a group of people, values, and customs |
Values | broad principals that shape behaviors. example good or bad, right or wrong |
Taboos | are norms so serious to a society that violations are considered extremely offensive and even unmentionable' example: the incest which prohibit sexual relations between a certain kin |
Mores | strongly held norms with moral and ethnical connotations. they may not be violate w/o serious consequences. ex; TOUCHING THE qween, standing for the national anthem |