Vocabulary terms for chapter 3 of "Sociology and You"
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| 87330678 | Nonmaterial culture | ideas, knowledge, and beliefs that influence people's behavior | 0 | |
| 87330679 | Material culture | the concrete, tangible objects of a culture | 1 | |
| 87330680 | Society | a specific territory inhabited by people who share a common culture | 2 | |
| 87330681 | Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | the idea that people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language | 3 | |
| 87330682 | Ideal culture | cultural guidelines that group members claim to accept | 4 | |
| 87330683 | Real culture | actual behavior patterns of members of a group | 5 | |
| 87330684 | Values | broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a society | 6 | |
| 87330685 | Beliefs | ideas about the nature of reality | 7 | |
| 87330686 | Norms | rules defining appropriate or inappropriate behavior | 8 | |
| 87330687 | Folkways | norms that lack moral significance | 9 | |
| 87330688 | Mores | norms that have moral dimensions and that should be followed by members of the society | 10 | |
| 87330689 | Taboo | a rule of behavior (norm), the violation of which calls for strong punishment | 11 | |
| 87330690 | Law | a norm that is formally defined and enforced by officials | 12 | |
| 87330691 | Formal sanctions | sanctions imposed by persons given special authority | 13 | |
| 87330692 | Informal sanctions | rewards or punishments that can be applied by most members of a group | 14 | |
| 87330693 | Invention | the creation of something new from previously existing items or processes | 15 | |
| 87330694 | Discovery | process by which something is learned or reinterpreted | 16 | |
| 87330695 | Diffusion | process by which one culture or society borrows from another culture or society | 17 | |
| 87330696 | Subculture | a group that is part of the dominant culture but that differs from it in some important respects | 18 | |
| 87330697 | Counterculture | a subculture deliberately and consciously opposed to certain central beliefs or attitudes of the dominant culture | 19 | |
| 87330698 | Ethnocentrism | judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards | 20 | |
| 87330699 | Cultural universals | general cultural traits that exist in all cultures | 21 | |
| 216508982 | Cultural particulars | the specific ways in which a culture expresses universal traits | 22 |
