Culture Vocabulary Pt. 2

1. The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a community.
4. A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.
6. 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.
7. The root beliefs that a person or organization operates from.
9. The spreading out and merging of pieces from different cultures.
10. The process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication.
11. A type of Norm. Does not have great moral significance. No official sanction for violating a folkway.

2. A smaller culture within a dominant culture that has a way of life different in some way from the dominant culture.
3. Includes celebration, congratulation, praise, social recognition, social promotion, and approval, as well as awards, bonuses, prizes, and titles.
5. A social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
8. A provision of a law enacting a penalty for disobedience or a reward for obedience
9. The term refers to the notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and the resulting social problems that are caused by this lag.