Sociology Chapter 3. Culture

5. groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist within a larger society
6. control a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms
9. things and ideas found from what already exists
10. the integration of international trade and finance markets
12. direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
14. a way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors
17. established, written rules
22. the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it
23. groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
24. the evaluation and judgment of another culture based on one’s own cultural norms
26. the way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists
27. a combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms
28. the cultural patterns of a society’s elite

1. the way that people understand the world based on their form of language
2. patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies
3. gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture
4. the moral views and principles of a group
7. casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to
8. the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another
11. the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured
13. people who live in a definable community and who share a culture
15. the standards a society would like to embrace and live up to
16. mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population
18. a symbolic system of communication
19. a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society
20. tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
21. shared beliefs, values, and practices
25. new objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time