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| beliefs | specific statements that people hold to be true |
| counterculture | cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society |
| cultural lag | the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system |
| cultural transmission | the process by which one generation passes culture to the next |
| cultural universals | traits that are part of every known culture |
| culture | the values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects that together form a people’s way of life |
| cultural shock | personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life |
| ethnocentrism | the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one’s own culture |
| folkways | norms for routine or casual interaction |
| horticulture | the use of hand tools to raise crops |
| hunting and gathering | the use of simple tools to hunt animals and gather vegetation for food |
| language | a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another |
| mores | norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
| norms | rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
| pastoralism | the domestication of animals |
| resocialization | radically changing an inmate's personality by carefully controlling the environment |
| society | people who interact in a defined territory and share a culture |
| subculture | cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a society’s population |
| symbol | anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
| technology | knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings |
| values | culturally defined standards that people use to assess desirability goodness, and beauty and that serve as broad guidelines for social living |
