American Values
Sanctions
Resisting Change
Social Change
Terms
100
Often measured in terms of power and wealth
What is personal achievement measured in?
100
punishment or threat of punishment used to enforce conformity
What is a negative sanction?
100
the tendency to view one's culture or group as superior
What is ethnocentrism?
100
a system of beliefs or ideas that justifies some social, religious, political or economic interest held by a social group
What is ideology
100
extreme self centeredness
What is narcissism
200
Discipline, dedication, and hard work are signs of virtue
What is work?
200
rewards or punishment used to enforce conformity to norms
What is a sanction?
200
a situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly or lag behind
What is cultural lag?
200
a long term concious effort to promte or prevent social change
What is social movement
200
the process by which a norm becomes apart of an individuals personality
What is internationalization
300
freedom of personal choice and freedom from direct government interference in daily life
What is Freedom?
300
when a sanction is a form of a reward
What is positive sanction?
300
the person who is satisfied with the way things are now is bound to resist any effort to change a situation
What is vested interests?
300
the knowldege and tools used to munipulate there enviorment
What is technology
300
the enforcing of norms through either internalization or sanctions
What is social control
400
self fulfillment
What is the most significant new american value?
400
a reward or punishment that is given by some formal organization
What is formal sanction?
400
ethnocentrism, cultural lag, and vested interest
What is the three ways to resist cultural change
400
the process of spreading culture traits from one socity to another
What is diffision
400
occurs when people recognize new uses for existing elements in the world
What is a discovery
500
belief that hard work and determination living conditions will improve
What is progress and material comfort?
500
a spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval given by an individual or group
What is an informal sanction?
500
no development in medicines
What is an example of cultural lag?
500
values and belifs, diffusion, technology, population, physical enviorment and wars and conquest
What is the six factors of social change
500
occurs when people uses existing knowledge to create something that did not already exist
What is an invention
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