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| counterculture | a group that rejects the values, norms and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |
| cultural relativism | belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards. |
| cultural universals | common features that are found in all human cultures. |
| culture | shared products of human groups. These products include both physical and non physical items. |
| culture complex | clusters of interrelated cultural traits. |
| culture patterns | combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole. |
| culture trait | individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need. |
| ethnocentrism | tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups. |
| folkways | norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them-the common customs of every day life. |
| language | organization of written and spoken symbols into a standardized system. |
| laws | written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by government. By definition, violation of these norms is a criminal act. |
| material culture | physical objects created by human groups. Sociologist and anthropologists use the term artifacts to refer it. |
| mores | norms that have great moral significance attached |
| non material culture | abstract human creations, such as language, ideas and beliefs. |
| norms | shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. |
| society | group of mutually interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity. |
| subculture | group with its own unique values, norms and behaviors that exist within the larger culture. |
| technology | knowledge and tools used for practical purposes. |
| values | shared beliefs about what is good and bad, right and wrong. |
