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| the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, which may disrupt a cultural system |
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| cultural patterns that strongly oppose those that are generally accepted within a society |
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| anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture |
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| the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture |
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| norms for routine, casual interaction |
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| norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance |
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| general practice or trait found in every culture |
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| shared ideas about how the world operates |
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| a system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another |
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| values, beliefs, behavior, material objects that together form a people's way of life |
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| people who interact in a defined territory and share culture |
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| personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life |
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| thesis that people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language |
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| rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members |
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| cultural patterns that set apart some segment of a societys population |
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| culturally defined standards by which people asses desirability, goodness and beauty, and which serve as broad guidelines of social living |
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