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| culture | the ways of thinking, the ways of acting, and the material objects that together form a people's way of life |
| society | people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture |
| culture shock | personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life |
| cultural transmission | the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
| Sapir-Whorf thesis | the idea that people see and understand the world through the cultural lens of language |
| values | culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
| beliefs | specific ideas that people hold to be true |
| norms | rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
| industry | the production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery |
| 3 things that result from culture change | invetion, discovery and diffusion |
| subculture | based on differences in interests as well as life experiences |
| multiculturalism | an effort to enhance apprecation of cultural diversity |
| counterculture | strongly at odds with conventional ways of life |
| ethnocentrism | links people to their socity but can cause misunderstanding and conflict between societies |
| cultrual relativism | increasingly important as people in the world come into more and more contact with each other |
| structural funtional approach | views culture as a stable system built on core values |
| social conflict approach | sees culture as a dynamic arena of inequality and conflict |
| sociobiology | explores how the long history of evolution has shaped patterns of culture in today's world |
| counterculture | cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society |
