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| Culture | Shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects & the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group. |
| Material Culture | Physical objects created by human groups. Artifacts would be a physical object of this term. |
| Non-material Culture | Abstract human creations, such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political & economic systems. |
| Symbol | Anything that stands for something else and has a shared meaning attached to it.l |
| Language | Organization of written & spoken symbols into a standardized system. |
| Values | Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. |
| Norms | Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations |
| Mores | Norms that have great moral significance attached to them. |
| Law | Written rule of conduct that is enacted and enforced by government. |
| Culture Trait | Individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need. |
| Culture Complex | Cluster of interrelated culture traits. |
| Culture Pattern | Combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole. |
| Cultural Universals | Common features that are found in all human cultures. |
| Kibbutz | Collective farm or settlement in Israel. |
| Ethnocentricism | Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups. |
| Cultural Relativism | Belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards. |
| Sub-Culture | Group with its own unique values, norms, & behaviors that exists within a larger culture. |
| Counter-Culture | Group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |
