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| CULTURE | Consists of all the shared products of human groups. |
| MATERIAL CULTURE | Includes automobiles, clothing, books, buildings, cooking utensils, and computers. |
| NONMATERIAL CULTURE | Abstract human creations. |
| SOCIETY | A group of mutually interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and feeling of unity. |
| SYMBOL | Anything that stands for something else. |
| LANGUAGE | The organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system. |
| VALUES | Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desireable or undesireable. |
| NORMS | The shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. |
| FOLKWAYS | Norms that do not have great moral signifcance attached to them. |
| MORES | Norms that have great moral signifcance attached to them. |
| LAW | A written rule of conduct that is enacted and enforced by the government. |
| CULTURE TRAIT | An individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need. |
| CULTURE COMPLEX | A cluster of interrelated traits. |
| CULTURE PATTERN | The combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole. |
| ETHNOCENTRISM | The tendency to view ones own culture and group as superior. |
| CULTURAL RELATIVISM | The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards. |
| SUBCULTURE | The unique cultural characteristics of different groups. |
| COUNTERCULTURE | The new subculture that emerges when a group rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |
