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Chapter 3 Vocab
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Sociology
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07/18/2013

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Agrarian Societies
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a society with advanced technology used for food production that can support larger groups of people with surplus
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Culture
Definition
shared beliefs and knowledge of a society
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Cultural Lag
Definition
parts of material culture progress at a faster rate than nonmaterial culture
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Ethnocentrism
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the belief that your culture is superior to other cultures
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The Great Social Transformation
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changing of social relationships from communal to associational from external factors; urbanization
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Associational Society
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society where relationships are mostly impersonal, the main social units are corporations, bureaucracies, and organizations
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Norms
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ways people should act in certain situations
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Society
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a group of people that share a common culture, government, and live in a specific territory
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Modes of Subsistence
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how a society obtains basic necessities to survive, most basic feature of society
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Values
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what people share about what is right or wrong; good or bad
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