| A | B |
| subculture | cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population |
| multiculturalism | educational program recognizing cultural diversity of the US and promoting equality of all cultural traditions |
| Eurocentrism | dominance of European (especially English) cultural patterns |
| Afrocentrism | dominance of African cultural patterns |
| counterculture | cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society |
| cultural integration | close relationship among various elements of a cultural system |
| cultural lag | fact that come cultural elements change more quickly than others, which may disrupt a cultural system |
| ethnocentrims | practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
| cultural relativism | practice of evaluating a culture by its own standards |
| cultural universals | traits that are part of every known culture |
| sociobiology | theoretical paradigm that explores ways in which human biology affects how we create culture |
| cultural conflict | political differences, often expressed with hostility, based on disagreement over cultural values |