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| Society | An organized, independent, continuing number of people living in a specified area. |
| Culture | A complex set of learned beliefs, customs, skills, habits, traditions, and knowledge shared by members of a society |
| Cultural Tourism | Traveling mainly to learn about and appreciate an area's cultural resources. |
| Sociology | The study of human social behavior, especially the study of the origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society |
| Socialization | The process by which a human being beginning at infancy acquires the habits, beliefs, and accumulated knowledge of society through education and training for adult status |
| Social Norms | Guides to behavior within groups and particular cultures. |
| Status | A person’s position in society relative to other persons’ position |
| Role | A person’s function or behavior in society as a result of his or her status |
| Mass Tourists | Travelers participating in wide-scale travel designed for large number of peoples |
| Group | A collection of persons who have regular contacts, share structured interactions, have a common feeling of togetherness, and work toward a common set of goals and objectives |
| Conformity | This occurs when a person’s action or behavior corresponds with socially accepted standards, |
| Social Stratification | This refers to the different segments of the population that exists in a society |
| Social Impacts | The changes in the lives of people who live in destination communities which are associated with tourism activity |
| Irridex Model | This suggests that, at the beginning stage of tourism development, residents are excited and euphoric, but, at later stages, they become apathetic, annoyed, and antagonistic. |
| Attitudinal Model | This suggests that community members can have a positive or negative attitude toward tourists and that this attitude can be expressed in an active or passive manner. |
| Adjustment Model | This suggests that residents display several types of responses to the tourist, including resistance, retreatism, boundary maintenance, revitalization, and adoption. |
| Cultural Impact | The changes in an area’s cultural resources (arts, artifacts, customs, rituals, architecture etc.) that result from tourism activity |
| Family Life Cycle | A way of grouping travelers in broad categories based on age, marital status, and presence and age of children |
