Chapter 2 - Sociology

1. is a group that rejects the values, norms, and practices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns
3. a commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential
6. common features that are found in all human cultures
10. is a group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exist within a larger culture
11. abstract human creations, such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work practices, and political and economic systems
16. shared products of human groups, which include both physical objects and the beliefs, values, and behaviors shared by the group
17. are written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government
18. a belief that culture should be judged by their own standards
19. shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations

2. a situation in which some aspects of the culture change less rapidly, or lag behind, other aspects of the same culture
4. norms that have great moral significance attached to them
5. are shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable
7. is a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture and have a feeling of unity
8. the process of spreading cultural traits from one society to another
9. physical objects created by human groups
12. is the tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups
13. the process through which cultures become more and more alike
14. the feeling of extreme self-centeredness
15. norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them