| A | B |
| culture | all of the shared products of human groups |
| material culture | physical objects that people create |
| nonmaterial culture | abstract human creations |
| symbol | anything that stands for something else |
| language | organization of written or spoken symbols in a standardized system |
| values | shared beliefs about right and wrong |
| norms | shared rules of conduct |
| folkways | norms that do not have great significance |
| mores | norms that have great importance |
| laws | written norms endorsed and enforced by governments |
| cultural trait | individual tool, act, or belief related to a particular situation |
| cultural universal | cultural trait common to all societies |
| ethnocentrism | tendency to view one's own culture as superior |
| cultural relativism | belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards |
| counterculture | a subculture that rejects the culture of the dominant society |