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| Self-fulfillment | a commitment to the full developement of one's personality, talents, and potential |
| narcissism | means extreme self-centeredness |
| internalization | when a norm becomes part of an individual's personality, thereby conditioning the individual to conform to society's expectations |
| sanctions | rewards or punishments used to enforce conformity to norms |
| positive sanction | when a sanction is in the form of a reward |
| negative sanction | a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity |
| formal sanction | a reward or punishment given by some formal organization or regulatory body, such as the government, the police, an organization, or school |
| informal sanction | a spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or a group |
| social control | the enforcing of norms through either internalization or sanctions |
| ideology | a system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, moral, religiouos, political, or economic interest |
| social movement | a long-term conscience effort to promote or prevent social change |
| technology | the knowledga and tools that people use to manipulate their environment for practical purposes |
| invention | occurs when people use existing knowledge to create something that did not previously exist |
| diffusion | the process of spreading culture traits from one society to another |
| ethnocentrism | the tendency to view one's own culture or group as superior |
| cultural lag | a situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly, or lag behind, other aspects of the same culture |
