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24 Cards in this Set
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Culture
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beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects used by a people.
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Culture Shock
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psychological (sometimes physiological) trauma from being in an alien culture.
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5 Basic Components of Culture
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Symbols, Language, Values, Norms, Material objects.
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Symbols
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Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture.
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Language
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a system of symbols that has standardized meaning.
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Values
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the standards by which people judge things.
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Norms
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The rules that guide behavior.
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Material Objects
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Tools used by a culture.
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Mores
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Norms that carry great social significance
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Folkways
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Norms that have little social significance.
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Social Control
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the attempts by a society to create conformity.
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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you can only know the world in terms of your language
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Amish
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typically farmers who have moved away from the technology of modern society.
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Subcultures
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a group of people that are a part of a larger group.
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Counter Cultures
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groups of people or cultural patterns that are against the dominant culture.
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Culture Lag
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the idea that some parts of a culture change more quickly than other parts of culture.
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Invention
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when something brand new is created
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Discovery
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finding something that is already in existence and using it.
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Diffusion
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The spreading of one culture to another.
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Ethnocentrism
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to believe ones culture is greater than another.
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Cultural Relativism
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the practice of judging other cultures by their own standards.
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4 Ways of looking at culture
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Structural Functional Paradigm, Social Conflict, Cultural Ecology, Sociobiology
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Cultural Ecology
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the idea that there is a relation between physical environment and culture.
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Sociobiology
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tries to explain culture as a product of genetics of biology.
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