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Define culture
Consists of all the shared products of human groups
A group of people who are organized to share a common culture and feeling of unity
Society
Written rules of conduct enforced by the governemnt
Laws
View ones culture as superior, judge others based on the standards of your culture
Ethnocentrism
Features common to all cultures
Cultural universals
A group that follows the values and norms of the larger society but also has its own unique features
Subculture
Holding the door open for the person behind you
When some aspects of society change less rapidly than others
Cultural lag
Give an example of a positive formal sanction
Pay raise
Define norm
Shared rules of conduct/expectations of behavior
Term that means how people learn to participate in group life
Socialization
Commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential
Self-fulfillment
Name the 3 types of norms
Mores, Folkways, Laws
Give an example of material AND non material culture
non-government/religion
material- cars/jewelry
Term that refers to self-centeredness
Narcissism
Give an example of positive informal sanction
Gold star on test
Give an example of a negative formal sanction
Terminated from job
List 3 out of the 5 components of culture
Technology, symbols, language, norms, and values
Term that means culture is passed from generation to generation
Cultural transmission
3 social factors that promote change
Population, wars and conquests, diffusion, physical environment
What are positive and negative sanctions?
Rewards or punishments used to produce desired behavior
This group rejects the values and norms of the larger society and replaces them with their own
List 3 Means of Social Control
Authority figures, police, family,religion, public opinion, and self
List 3 factors in society that resist change
Ethnocentrism, cultural lag, vested interests
3 traditional American values listed by sociologists
Personal achievement, individualism, hard work, humanitarianism, efficiency, progress and material comfort, equality, democracy, freedom