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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   culture  
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the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry   material culture  
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a group's way s of thinking and doing   nonmaterial culture  
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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   culture shock  
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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   ethnocentrism  
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not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms   cultural relativism  
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another term for nonmaterial culture   symbolic culture  
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something to which people people attach meanings and then use to communicate with others   symbol  
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the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another   gestures  
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a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways and can represent not only objects but also abstract thought   language  
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Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis that language creates ways of thinking and percieving   Sapir-Whorf hypothesis  
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the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful, or ugly   values  
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expectations, or rules of behavior, that reflect and enforce values   norms  
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expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms   sanctions  
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a reward or positive reaction for following norms, ranging from a smile to a prize   positive sanction  
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an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal reaction such as a prison sentence or an execution   negative sanction  
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norms that are not strictly enforced   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   mores  
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a norm so strong that it often brings revulsion if violated   taboo  
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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   subculture  
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a group whose values, beliefs, and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader sulture   counterculture  
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a society made up of many different groups   pluralistic society  
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values that together form a larger whole   value cluster  
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values that contradict on another; to follow the one means to come into conflict with the other   value contradiction  
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the ideal values and norms of a people; the goals held out for them   ideal culture  
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the norms and values that people actually follow   real culture  
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a value, norm, or other cultural trait that is found in every group   cultural universal  
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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   sociobiology  
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in its narrow sense, tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools   technology  
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the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life   new technology  
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Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations   cultual lage  
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the spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another   cultural disffusion  
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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   cultural leveling  
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smaller group (ex. high school students)   sub culture  
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something way outside mainstream (atheists)   counter culture  
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