Culture Vocabulary

5. the culture and lifestyle of those people, especially among the young, who reject or oppose the dominant values and behavior of society.
8. the spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures.
10. movements with one's hands, arms, or face that communicate particular messages.
12. socially approved norms or standards of moral and ethical behavior.
15. an ideal or principle that determines what is correct, desirable, or morally proper.
18. a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to a new, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment.
19. punishments for violating norms
21. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
22. the ability to learn and transmit behavioral traditions from one generation to the next by the invention.
24. a social reaction of approval or disapproval in response to someones actions

1. the belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.
2. anything that carried meaning to a specific group of people or culture
3. the learned behavior, shared by a social group, that provides a traditional mode of conduct.
4. rewards given for conforming to norms
6. the aggregate of values, more, norms, etc.
7. a hypothesis, first advanced by Edward Sapir in 1929.
9. the tools, arts, buildings, written records, and any other objects, produced or used by humans.
11. a concept that cultural norms and values derive their meaning within specific social context.
13. a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs.
14. a fundamental concept in the social science, most commonly defined as rules or expectations that are socially enforced.
16. symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted.
17. the difference between material culture and non-material culture.
20. the prohibition of an action based on the belief that such behavior is either too sacred or too dangerous.
21. the process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication.
23. the root beliefs that a person or organization operate from