Sociology-Culture

4. a culture’s standard for discerning what is good and just in society
6. culture: the cultural patterns of a society’s elite
7. tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
10. a combination of pieces of existing reality into new forms
13. universals: patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies
14. hypothesis: the way that people understand the world based on their form of language
15. : direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture
20. groups that share a specific identification, apart from a society’s majority, even as the members exist within a larger society
22. new objects or ideas introduced to culture for the first time
24. norms: casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to
25. a symbolic system of communication
27. culture: the way society really is based on what actually occurs and exists
28. gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture

1. the moral views and principles of a group
2. people who live in a definable community and who share a culture
3. a way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors
5. things and ideas found from what already exists
8. the evaluation and judgment of another culture based on one’s own cultural norms
9. control: a way to encourage conformity to cultural norms
11. culture: the standards a society would like to embrace and live up to
12. lag: the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it
16. :the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another
17. culture: mainstream, widespread patterns among a society’s population
18. shared beliefs, values, and practices
19. the integration of international trade and finance markets
21. groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns
23. the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured
26. norms: established, written rules