Culture Vocabulary

2. Physical and non-verbal communication to express feeling, ideas, emotions
3. All tangible products produced as a result from human interaction
4. Celebration, praise, bonuses - all for conforming to social norms
7. Behavior deemed inappropriate by society
10. Cultures should be judged by their values
13. Slowness of culture to adapt in relation to material (invention/technological) change
15. What a group holds to be important
16. The root beliefs that a culture operates from
18. Non-tangible ideas that are not physical, ie: family pattern, language, economic system, work
22. Ideas, beliefs, opinions that defines a groups way of life
23. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices
24. The spreading and merging of pieces from different cultures

1. The belief that one’s own culture is superior to others
5. Nonmaterial components in a culture, ie: signs, gestures, language
6. form of social control , a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms
8. Expected rules and behaviors that guide social interaction
9. The process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication.
11. Punishments for violating norms
12. Organized written symbols and spoken sounds to allow communication within a culture
14. A subculture that opposes the values and norms of the dominant culture
17. A type of norm without major moral/social significance
19. A feeling of disorientation one feels in an unfamiliar culture/way of life
20. A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture
21. Anything that stands for/represents something with shared meaning attached to it