Chapter 2 - Cultural Diversity and Conformity

3. Shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations.
6. The spreading of cultural traits - ideas and beliefs, as well as material items - from one society to another.
8. A group within a broader society that has its own unique characteristics including values, norms, and behaviors.
10. The time between changes, when ideas and beliefs are adapting to new material conditions.
11. Formalized or written rules of conduct enacted, enforced by the government.
13. Norms that have great moral significance attached to them because the violation of such rules and dangerous societies well-being instability.
15. All the shared products of human groups.
16. A group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share a common culture or feeling of unity.
17. A commitment to the full development of one's personality, talents, and potential.
18. The tendency to view once own culture and group as superior to others.

1. A disorder which includes extreme self-centeredness.
2. A group that rejects the major values, norms, and practices of the larger culture and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns.
4. Norms that describe socially acceptable behavior but do not have great moral significance attached to them.
5. Futures common to all cultures created in order to ensure the fulfillment of society’s needs.
7. The physical objects that people create and use.
9. The process by which cultures become more and more alike.
12. Shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.
14. The belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards rather than by applying the standards of another culture.