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shared products of human groups. These products include both physical objects & the beliefs, valutes, & behaviors shared by the group. |
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physical objects created by human groups. Sociologists & anthropologists use the term artifacts to refer to the physical objects of material culture. |
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abstract human creations, such as language, ideas, beliefs, rules, skills, family patterns, work pratices, and political & economic systems. |
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group of mutually inderdependent people wo have organized in such a way as to share a common culture & have a feeling of unity |
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knowledge & tools people use for practial purposes. |
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organization of written & spoken symbols into a standardized system |
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shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable. |
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shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in a specific situations. |
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norms that do not have grat moral significance attached to them- the common customs of everyday life. |
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norms that have great moral significance attached to them |
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written rules of conduct that are enacted and enforced by the government. By defentition, the violation of these norms is considered a criminal act. |
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individual tool, act, or belief that is related to a particular situation or need. |
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clusters of interrelated culture traits. |
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combination of a number of culture complexes into an interrelated whole |
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common features that are found in all human cultures. |
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tendency to viw one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups. |
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belief that cultures should be judged by their own standards. |
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group with its own unique values, norms, and behaviors that exists within a larger culture. |
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group that rejects the values, norms, and pratices of the larger society and replaces them with a new set of cultural patterns. |
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