Culture

3. Organized system of written symbols or spoken sounds that allow communication among members of a culture.
7. The traditional behavior or way of life of a particular community or group of people.
8. A subculture that opposes the values and norms of the dominant culture. Often lives apart from the dominant culture. Sometimes seeks to change the values and norms of the dominant culture to those of the Counterculture.
12. All of the tangible products created by human interaction. Cannot be held or touched. Examples are family pattern, language, economic system, work practices, etc…
14. The ability to learn and transmit behavioral traditions from one generation to the next by the invention of things that exist entirely in the symbolic realm.
15. A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
16. Anything that stands for or represents something and has shared meaning attached to it.
17. The prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behaviour is either too sacred and consecrated or too dangerous and accursed for ordinary individuals to undertake.
20. All of the common ideas, beliefs, behaviors, and products common to, and defining, a group’s way of life.
21. A movement of part of the body, especially a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning.
22. Something that is usual, typical, or standard.
23. Cultures should be judged by their own values. Verstehen.
24. Actual or promised rewards.

1. The process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication.
2. Actual or threatened punishments.
4. The root beliefs that a person or organization operates from.
5. Belief that one’s own culture and group is superior to others.
6. A person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
9. The feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.
10. The prevailing standards of behavior that enable people to live cooperatively in groups.
11. The notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and the resulting social problems that are caused by this lag.
13. All of the tangible products created by human interaction. Can be held or touched. Examples are clothing, buildings, car, computers, prepared food, etc…
18. The spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures.
19. A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture.