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Ch 2 socio

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Culture   show
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show the material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, weapons, utensils, machines, hairstyles, clothing, and jewelry  
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Nonmaterial Culture [Symbolic Culture]   show
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show norms that are strictly enforced because they are thought essential to core values or the well being of a group  
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Moral Holidays   show
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Material Culture Definition   show
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Non-Material Culture and its componentsDefinition   show
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show the ways in which people use their bodies to communicate with one another  
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show system of symbols combined in infinite number of ways and can represent not objects and abstract thoughts, Allows culture to develop by freeing people to move beyond their immediate experiences, Frees us from the present, giving social past and future  
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show standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly  
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Norms   show
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show a people’s ideal values and norms; the goals held out for them  
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show the norms and values people actually follow  
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show something to which people attach meanings and then use to communicate with others  
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Ethnocentrism Definition   show
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show not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own terms, Looking at how the elements of culture fit together without judging these elements as superior or inferior to our own way of life  
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Culture Shock Definition   show
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Counterculture Definition   show
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show a value, norm, or cultural trait that is found in every group  
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Similar activities are present in all cultures, but the specific customs may differ – universal human activities but no universally accepted way of doing each activity   show
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Cultural Diffusion Definition   show
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The effectiveness of today’s travel and communications aids in the rapidly increasing speed of cultural diffusion   show
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show Ogburn’s term for human behavior lagging behind technological innovations, Not all parts of culture change at the same pace. A groups material culture usually changes first, with the nonmaterial culture lagging behind  
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show the process by which cultures become similar to one another; refers especially to the process by which western culture is being exported and diffused into other nations  
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show either expressions of approval given to people for upholding norms or expressions of disapproval for violating them  
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Pluralistic Society Definition   show
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show Achievement and success, Individualism, Hard work. Efficiency and practicality, Science and technology, Material comfort, Freedom, Democracy. Equality, Group superiority, Education. Religiosity. Romantic love  
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show values that contradict one another; to follow the one means to come into conflict with another, it is precisely at the point of value contradictions, then, that one can see a major force for social changes in a society  
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show durkheim's term for a condition of society in which people become detatched from their ususal norms that guid their behavior  
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theoretical parodome   show
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