G11 Sociology CH3 Culture Key Terms

beliefs

• tenets or convictions that people hold to be true

• patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies

• shared beliefs, values, and practices

countercultures

• groups that reject and oppose society’s widely accepted cultural patterns

• patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies

• the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it

patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies

• cultural universals

• countercultures

• globalization

culture

• the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another

• shared beliefs, values, and practices

• the integration of international trade and finance markets

culture lag

• the gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture’s acceptance of it

• the visible and invisible rules of conduct through which societies are structured

• gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture

diffusion

• the spread of material and nonmaterial culture from one culture to another

• things and ideas found from what already exists

• shared beliefs, values, and practices

discoveries

• things and ideas found from what already exists

• direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture

• patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies

ethnocentrism

• the evaluation and judgment of another culture based on one’s own cultural norms

• a way to authorize or formally disapprove of certain behaviors

• gestures or objects that have meanings associated with them that are recognized by people who share a culture

folkways

• direct, appropriate behavior in the day-to-day practices and expressions of a culture

• established, written rules

• casual behaviors that are generally and widely conformed to

the integration of international trade and finance markets

• globalization

• countercultures

• cultural universals