front 1 beliefs | back 1 tenets or convictions that people hold to be true |
front 2 countercultures | back 2 groups that reject and oppose society's widely accepted cultural patterns |
front 3 cultural imperialism | back 3 the deliberate imposition of one's own cultural value on another culture |
front 4 cultural relativism | back 4 the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards, and not in comparison to another culture |
front 5 cultural universals | back 5 patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies |
front 6 culture | back 6 shared beliefs, values, and practices |
front 7 culture lag | back 7 the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and non material culture's acceptance of it |
front 8 culture shock | back 8 an experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life |
front 9 diffusion | back 9 the spread of material and non material culture from one culture to another |
front 10 discoveries | back 10 things and ideas found from what already exists |
front 11 ethnocentrism | back 11 the practice of evaluating another culture according to the standards of one's own culture |
front 12 folkways | back 12 direct, appropriate behavior in the day to day practices and expressions of a culture |
front 13 formal norms | back 13 established, written rules |
front 14 globalization | back 14 the integration of international trade and finance markets |
front 15 high culture | back 15 the cultural patterns of a society's elite |
front 16 ideal culture | back 16 the standards a society would like to embrace and live up to |
front 17 informal norms | back 17 casual behaviors that generally and widely conformed to |
front 18 innovations | back 18 new objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time |
front 19 inventions | back 19 a combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms |
front 20 language | back 20 a symbolic system of communication |
front 21 material culture | back 21 the objects or belongings of a group of people |
front 22 mores | back 22 the moral views and principles of a group |
front 23 nonmaterial culture | back 23 the ideas, attitudes, and beliefs of a society |
front 24 norms | back 24 the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured |
front 25 popular culture | back 25 mainstream, widespread patterns among a society's population |
front 26 real culture | back 26 the way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists |
front 27 sanctions | back 27 a way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors |
front 28 Sapir Whorf hypothesis | back 28 the way that people understand the world based on their form of language |
front 29 social control | back 29 a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms |
front 30 society | back 30 people who live in a definable community and who share a culture |
front 31 subcultures | back 31 groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society's majority, even as the members exist within a larger society |
front 32 symbols | back 32 gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture |
front 33 values | back 33 a cultures standard for discerning what is good and just in society |
front 34 xenocentrism | back 34 a belief that another culture is superior to one's own |