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Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next   show
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show material culture  
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a group's way s of thinking and doing   show
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the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer depend on their taken-for-granted assumptions about life   show
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the use of one's own culture as a yardstick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies, generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values, norms, and behaviors   show
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show cultural relativism  
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another term for nonmaterial culture   show
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something to which people people attach meanings and then use to communicate with others   show
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the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another   show
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show language  
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show Sapir-Whorf hypothesis  
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the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful, or ugly   show
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expectations, or rules of behavior, that reflect and enforce values   show
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show sanctions  
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show positive sanction  
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show negative sanction  
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show folkways  
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norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the well-being of the group   show
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a norm so strong that it often brings revulsion if violated   show
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the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture; a world within a world   show
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a group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader sulture   show
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show pluralistic society  
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show value cluster  
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show value contradiction  
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show ideal culture  
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the norms and values that people actually follow   show
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a value, norm, or other cultural trait that is found in every group   show
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a framework of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considers biological factors to be the fundamental cause of human behavior   show
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in its narrow sense, tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools   show
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the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life   show
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Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations   show
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the spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another   show
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the process by which cultures become similar to one another; refers especially to the process by which the U.S. culture is being exported and disffused into other nations   show
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show sub culture  
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something way outside mainstream (atheists)   show
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