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Define culture
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The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and material objects that are important enough to pass on to future generations
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What is a nonmaterial culture?
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The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society- non physical products of society
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What is a material culture?
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The tangible things created by members of societyexample: the cars we drive
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What is culture shock?
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It occurs when a person encounters a foreign culture and has an emotional response to the differences
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IMPORTANT what are the 6 components of culture?
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Symbols, language, gestures, values and beliefs, norms, material culture
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What is a symbol?
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Anything that has a particular meaning and is recognized by people who share a culture
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What is language?
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A sytem of symbols that allows people to communicate with each other?
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What is culutral transmission?
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How culture passes from one generation to another through language
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What are gestures?
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Symbols we make using our bodies
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What are values?
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Culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, and beauty which are guidlines for social living
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What is a value pair? value cluster? value conflict?
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Helps define values in terms of opposites; 2 or more values that support each other; 2 or more values that are at odds
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What are beliefs?
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Specific statements people hold to be true
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What are norms?
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Rules and expectations that guide behavior of a society
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What are proscriptive norms? prescriptive?
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Should nots, prohibited; shoulds, prescribed
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What are folleways? mores?
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What's considered rude, what is against law
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