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Sociology Chapter 2

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Culture   the language, beliefs, values,norms,behaviors,and even material objects that are passed from one generation to the next  
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Material Culture   the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art,buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, jewelry  
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Nonmaterial culture   ( also known as symbolic culture) a groups way of thinking including its beliefs values and other assumptions about the world and doing ( its common patterns of behavior including language and other form of interaction)  
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Culture Shock   the disorientation that people experience when they come in contact with a fundamentally different culture and can no longer tak-for-granted assumptions about life  
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Ethnocentrism   the use of one's own culture as a yard stick for judging the ways of other individuals or societies generally leading to a negative evaluation of their values norms and behaviors  
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Cultural Relativism   not judging but trying ti understand it on its own terms  
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Symbolic culture   another term of nonmaterial culture  
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Symbol   something to which people attach meaning and then use to communicate with others  
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Gestures   the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another  
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Language   a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways and can represent not only objects but also abstract thought  
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis   Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Wharf's hypothesis that language creates ways of thinking and perceiving  
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Values   the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly  
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Norms   expectations, or rules of behavior, that reflect and enforce values  
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Sanctions   expressions of approval or disapproval given to people for upholding or violating norms  
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Positive Sanctions   a reward or positive reaction for following norms ringing form a smile to a prize  
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Negative Sanctions   an expression of disapproval for breaking an norm ranging from a mild informal reaction such as a frown to a forma reaction such as a prison sentence or an execution  
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Folkways   norms that are not strictly enforced  
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Mores   norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the well begin of the group  
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Taboo   a norm so strong that it often brings revulsion if violated  
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Subculture   the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguishes its members from the larger culture; a world within a world  
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Counterculture   a group whose values beliefs and related behaviors place its members in opposition to the broader culture  
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Pluralistic society   a society made up of many different groups  
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Value Cluster   values that together from a larger whole  
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Value contradiction   values that contradict each other to follow the one means to come into conflict with the other  
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Ideal Culture   the ideal values and norms of people; the goals held out for them  
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Real Culture   the norms and values that people actually follow  
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Cultural Universal   a value, norm, or other, cultural trait that is found in every group  
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Sociobiology   a frame work of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considered biological factors ti be the fundamental cause of human behavior  
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Technology   in its narrow sense tools; its broader sense includes the skills or procedures necessary to make and use those tools.  
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New Technology   the emerging technologies of an era that have a significant impact on social life  
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Cultural lag   Ogburn's term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations  
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Cultural Diffusion   the spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another  
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Cultural Leveling   the process by which cultures become similar to ones another; refers especially to the process by which U.S. culture is being diffused into other nations  
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