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Culture

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Culture is the total way of life shared by members of a community. It includes not only language, values, and symbolic meanings but also technology and material objects.

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Society

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A society is the population that shares the same territory and is bound together by economic and political ties.

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Cultural relativity

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Cultural relativity requires that each cultural trait be evaluated in the context of its own culture.

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Ethnocentrism

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Ethnocentrism is the tendency to judge other cultures according to the norms and values of one’s own culture.

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Sociobiology

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Sociobiology is the study of the biological basis of all forms of human (and nonhuman) behavior.

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Language

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Language is the ability to communicate in symbols—orally, by manual sign, or in writing.

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Values

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Values are shared ideas about desirable goals.

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Norms

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Norms are shared rules of conduct that specify how people ought to think and act.

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Folkways

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Folkways are norms that are the customary, normal, habitual ways a group does things.

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Mores

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Mores are norms associated with fairly strong ideas of right or wrong; they carry a moral connotation.