Sociology:Culture

2. involves making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.
4. generally have been written down and specify strict punishments or violators.
6. are norms governing everyday behavior.
10. refers to the process by which a cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society.
12. describes the set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests.
17. common practices and beliefs.
21. are the established standards of behavior maintained by a society.
22. refers to the physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.
23. refers to the period of maladjustment when the nonmaterial culture is still struggling to adapt to new material conditions.
26. the viewing people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.
27. is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behavior.
28. when existing cultural items are combined into a form that did not exist before.
29. the process of introducing a new idea or object to a culture.
30. "cultural information about the ways in which the material resources of the environment may be used to satisfy human needs and desires."

1. are generally understood but not precisely recorded.
3. the systematic study of how biology affects human social behavior.
5. refers to ways of using material objects, as well as to customs, beliefs, philosophies, governments, and patterns of communication.
7. are penalities and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
8. are norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
9. a specialized language that a subculture will develop that distinguishes it from the wider society.
11. is a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of customs, rules, and traditions that difers from the pattern of the larger society.
13. the use of gestures, facial expressions, and other visual images to communicate.
14. is an abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture.
15. a subculture conspicuously and deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.
16. are these collective conceptions of what is considered good, desirable, and proper--or bad, undesirable, and improper--in culture.
18. are the gestures, objects, and words that form the basis of human communication.
19. a feeling off disoriented, uncertain, out of place, or even fearful when you are immersed in an unfamiliar culture.
20. noneconomic assets, such as family background.
24. governmental social control
25. the tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.